[DVIPDFMx] dvipdfmx --version / --help
Jin-Hwan Cho
jinhwan.cho at gmail.com
Sat Oct 10 19:01:04 KST 2009
Modified the CVS code as suggested by Matthias and Karl.
Thanks, ChoF.
On Oct 10, 2009, at 6:03 AM, Karl Berry wrote:
> 1) In usage(), one could replace show_usage and show_version by
> something
> like
>
> fprintf(stdout, "\nType \"dvipdfmx --help\" for details.
> \n");
>
> Then mistakes on the command line don't automatically produce the
> help screen anymore. I sometimes find it annoying that simple typos
> fill most of the screen with text.
>
> I fully agree. For example, cp --foo reports:
>
> cp: unrecognized option `--foo'
> Try `cp --help' for more information.
>
> I think that is the best approach.
>
> 2) What about extractbb? Should we have the same options there?
>
> Yes. The ideal is that all executables should recognize those two
> options.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Karl
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