23501 - Support for DOS-style commandline options: -? and "/"

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: XPCOM, defect, P3)

Description

[Alan S. Jones]

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.....".

Comment 1

[Chris McAfee]

better summary

Comment 2

[Chris McAfee]

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.

Comment 3

[Bill Law]

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.

Comment 4

[Bill Law]

Moving to M15.

Comment 5

[Alan S. Jones]

Reassigning to [e-mail] as requested

I would suggest that win32, unix, ect should all be able to to a "/" instead of 
"-" not nost just Win32 for consistancy.  

Comment 6

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

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.

Comment 7

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

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

Comment 8

[Alan S. Jones]

oops this was my bug, marking verifed fixed

Comment 9

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

Moving all threading bugs to XPCOM. See bug 160356.