Closed Bug 23501 Opened 25 years ago Closed 25 years ago

Support for DOS-style commandline options: -? and "/"

Categories

(Core :: XPCOM, defect, P3)

Product:
Core
Component:
XPCOM
Platform:
x86
Windows 95
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED FIXED

People

(Reporter: alan-lists, Assigned: sspitzer)

Details

Mcafee, I put you down in the assigned field as you fixed the last bug in this
area.  This is really low priority, but would be nice.

In the MS DOS world I am used to hitting -? or /? to get the help screen in
stead of -h or -help.  -? Should be an option.

The other thing MS DOS people do is "/" instead of "-".  Can we have "/" or "-"
for all paramaters?

Also if you enter a paramater that is not known what about having message saying
"unknown paramater.....".
Component: Browser-General → XPApps
Summary: mozilla -? and "/" instead of "-" should be an option. → Support for DOS-style commandline options: -? and "/"
better summary
Assignee: mcafee → law
Looks like the "-help" strings, etc. are hard-coded
into nsAppRunner.cpp, we would have to abstract the
'-' character somehow.  Over to law for a look.
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Target Milestone: M14
Targeting for M14.  A quick and dirty fix shouldn't be too hard.  Doing it
properly (including proper localization) might take a bit more work.
Moving to M15.
Target Milestone: M14 → M15
Reassigning to sspitzer@netscape.com as requested

I would suggest that win32, unix, ect should all be able to to a "/" instead of 
"-" not nost just Win32 for consistancy.
Assignee: law → sspitzer
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
Component: XPApps → Threading
on linux, / will not work

proof:

mozilla /foo

is that

mozilla with the argument -foo
or 
mozilla display the file /foo

this will be windows only.
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
on windows, mozilla /mail works just like mozilla -mail.  /? does the same thing
as /help (and -help)

on linux, /mail is not the same as -mail (see my comments above)

but --mail is == -mail
 
-V -Version and -VERSION all work now, due to the magic of strcasecmp
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 25 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
oops this was my bug, marking verifed fixed
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Moving all threading bugs to XPCOM. See bug 160356.
Component: Threading → XPCOM
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