Hi,

i started to write some patches, at the moment 2. Now it's the time to 
ask you guys some questions about that.

I wrote a patch for cat which shows the user some usage-information.
Jody Bruchon used write() for this purpose, other tools are using 
fprintf(stderr, ....).
I don't know which i should prefer. In my opinion i would rather use 
fprintf.
STDERR should be the output for operations, right?

I wrote a second patch, which adds some more functionality to cp.
It adds three command-line-options:
     -v    be verbose
     -i     be interactive, ask before overwriting
     -n    don't overwrite files

i want to add 3 more options:
     -u    update-only (only overwrite if source is newer)
     -b    make a backup if destination file already exists
     -f     force, if destfile cannot be opened, remove it, try again.


Is this the right way to write code for this project? It's the first 
time I'm doing this in here and i don't wan't to do things wrong...

I think these two patches are still just drafts - i send them because i 
want to show, i know theres more work to do on this two patches.

Nils