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Subject: RE: setup.exe command line options
From: Robert Collins <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: Keith Starsmeare <keith_starsmeare AT yahoo DOT co DOT uk>
Cc: cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com
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Date: 31 Oct 2001 20:40:44 +1100
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On Wed, 2001-10-31 at 19:30, Keith Starsmeare wrote:
>  --- Robert Collins <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au> wrote: > > -----Original
> Message-----
> > > From: Keith Starsmeare [mailto:keith_starsmeare AT yahoo DOT co DOT uk]
> > > 
> > > I thought it best to mirror the options in the dialog boxes, 
> > > so I came up
> > > with these options:
> > 
> > Can I suggest getopt is used? (Just copy the mingw_getopt.o rule from
> > utils/Makefile.in).
> 
> The arguments are passed in as one string, can I use getopt to process a
> string; I imagined I that getopt worked with an array of strings i.e. char
> *argv[]?

Fixed. I realised this just after mailing my comment :}. Update your CVS
repository.

> I enjoyed writing my own function to make parsing easier (I've never used
> getopt, although I had heard of it, and there's no man page) but if getopt is
> the way to go then I'll use it.
> 
> Keith
> 
> BTW Is there a cinoptions setting for vim to match the indentation in the setup
> sources - I can't get the braces and then the block of code to indent...

Possibly, I ususally just hit spc spc :].