bowtie: extra parameter error

[feralBiologist]

I'm trying to execute

bowtie –m 1 -S /hts/galaxy/data/references/genomes/mus-musc/ens73/mm73 whole_sample.fastq whole_sample.sam

but I'm getting

Extra parameter(s) specified: "whole_sample.fastq", "whole_sample.sam"

This is quite annoying and I am sure there is some stupid syntax error on my part. Can you help spot it? This is bowtie version 1.0.

--EDIT: I reversed the place of the parameters:

bowtie -S -m 1  /hts/galaxy/data/references/genomes/mus-musc/ens73/mm73 whole_sample.fastq whole_sample.sam

and now it works. This is bizarre. Apparently, the sequence of the parameters makes a difference but it is not something I find obvious from the bowtie manual.