On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 04:37:56 +0400, Dmitry Kurochkin <dmitry.kurochkin@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Oct 2011 21:20:40 -0300, David Bremner <bremner@unb.ca> wrote:

> IMHO 1[+2] is the way.  It breaks the dump command interface, but would
> make it consistent with other commands.  Implementing the second option
> (for all commands) is nice but independent and optional.  Also, perhaps
> --output, --output-file or smth would a better name than --write.

I'm not fussy about the name, except that --output is taken, and I
thought there might be some benefit of making options have unique prefixes.

d