661852 - Windows-only: "seamonkey -help" and "seamonkey -version" do nothing

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 355889

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Stefan Persson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110420 SeaMonkey/2.0.14
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; ja; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110420 SeaMonkey/2.0.14

Typing in "seamonkey -help" or "seamonkey -version" in cmd.exe neither starts SeaMonkey nor outputs help or version information.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start "cmd.exe".
2. Add the SeaMonkey installation directory to system path or "cd" to the installation directory. I did the former.
3. Type in "seamonkey -help" or "seamonkey -version".

Actual Results:  
Nothing happens; SeaMonkey doesn't start and there is no screen output. If I start SeaMonkey with an invalid flag, such as "seamonkey -abc", SeaMonkey starts normally, so it seems that SeaMonkey detects the "-help" and "-version" flags.

Expected Results:  
In Linux, the "-help" flag outputs lots of information to the standard output about command-line options whereas the "-version" flag outputs the SeaMonkey version number. Expected result under Windows would be to either start SeaMonkey or output the same information.

Comment 1

[Stefan Persson]

Attachment: Some example output from cmd.exe

Comment 2

[Philip Chee]

See Bug 355889 Comment 4

Comment 3

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

Stefan: see the workaround at bug 355889 comment #4