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[patch] Help Option
- From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb at ukf dot net>
- To: <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 01:16:31 -0000
- Subject: [patch] Help Option
Setup has all these wonderful command line options, but no way to find out
what they are!
Possible patch below. exit(0) seems a little clumsy. Would you rather I did
something via theLog ?
Although I think we don't really want logs just for a help invocation.
Max.
Index: main.cc
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RCS file: /home/max/cvsmirror/cygwin-apps-cvs/setup/main.cc,v
retrieving revision 2.22
diff -u -p -r2.22 main.cc
--- main.cc 2002/11/10 03:56:05 2.22
+++ main.cc 2002/11/10 09:49:13
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ int next_dialog;
HINSTANCE hinstance;
static BoolOption UnattendedOption (false, 'q', "quiet-mode", "Unattended
setup mode");
+static BoolOption HelpOption (false, 'h', "help", "Show this help");
/* Maximum size of a SID on NT/W2K. */
#define MAX_SID_LEN 40
@@ -210,6 +211,8 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
if (!GetOption::GetInstance().Process (argc,_argv))
theLog->exit(1);
// #endif
+
+ if (HelpOption) { GetOption::GetInstance().ParameterUsage(std::cout);
exit (0); }
unattended_mode = UnattendedOption;