Subject: Re: Command-line parameters
From: Matthew Kirkwood (matthew@hairy.beasts.org)
Date: Mon Aug 20 2001 - 15:39:17 CDT
On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Paul Rohr wrote:
> I do know that I've been setting -nosplash as a command-line argument
> to numerous Windows apps for far too long now to be happy about
> changing this in an XP way.
>
> If anyone's interested in really looking at spiffing up our
> command-line support, would it be worth considering adding parser
> magic so that people could use as many dashes as they felt comfortable
> with? Or is that a dumb / impractical idea?
popt, which I assume is used by the GNOME build at least,
has an option which allows you to say "this is a long
argument, but please accept a single sah before it".
Matthew.
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