Long options Re: AS/400 client -- LINUX5250

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James David Rich <james@eaerich.com> writes:

> As a side note:  how about changing it to accept GNU-style long options?
> tn5250 -v or tn5250 --version is more common than tn5250 -version, I
> believe.  Similarly, tn5250 -u or tn5250 --underscores is probably more
> standard wasy of indicating options.

Actually, this has been bugging me as well, though I thought I
shouldn't complain without being willing to write the code...

It makes more sense to me, and would also let it be made compatible
with the command line options from previous versions.

-- 
         Carey Evans  http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/
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