Re: setup.exe command line options

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 08:49:32PM +0100, Keith Starsmeare wrote:
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com>
>To: <cygwin-developers@cygwin.com>
>Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 8:18 PM
>Subject: Re: setup.exe command line options
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>> I agree with the option names being similar to the dialog boxes but I'd
>> prefer that you use '--' options.  If you could invent suitable short
>> '-q' style options that would be good too.
>
>OK, that's a good idea - my command lines were getting very long!
>
>One other thing would be a --help option, is there a way that I can output
>to stdout? printf, and fprintf(stdout,..) don't output to the command line.
>I'm currently using fprintf(stderr, ..), which brings up a handy dialog box,
>for tracing.

There is no way that I know of to do this with a -mwindows based
utility, unfortunately.  It's a real pain.  This was recently discussed
on the cygwin-xfree mailing list.

cgf