Suggestion for regtool

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna at vinschen dot de>]

Hi DJ,

I have made a small patch to your new regtool. It's a nice tool
but personally I hate using backslashes on the command line.

My patch checks the first char of the key value to be a slash.
If so, all slashes are translated to backslashes if they
are not preceded by a backslash itself.

I have done the check for the first char is a slash to avoid
some fuzzy kind of automatism.

If you don't like this patch, simply ignore it :)

Bye,
Corinna

========== SNIP ===========
Index: regtool.cc
===================================================================
RCS file: /src/cvsroot/winsup-000108/utils/regtool.cc,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff -u -p -r1.1 regtool.cc
--- regtool.cc  2000/01/20 09:36:29     1.1
+++ regtool.cc  2000/01/20 09:35:52
@@ -92,11 +92,23 @@ struct {
   { 0, 0 }
 };

+void translate(char *key)
+{
+  char *c = key;
+  while (c = strchr (c, '/'))
+    if (c > key && c[-1] == '\\')
+      memmove(c-1, c, strlen(c)+1);
+    else
+      *c++ = '\\';
+}
+
 void
 find_key(int howmanyparts)
 {
   char *n = argv[0], *e, c;
   int i;
+  if (*n == '/')
+    translate(n);
   while (*n == '\\')
     n++;
   for (e=n; *e && *e != '\\'; e++);