[lcdproc] Hashes to Hashes and config file to config file.

[Andre Breiler]

On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Matt wrote:

> James McCracken mentioned the following:
> 
> | Easier than that, in fact.  The C command line parser automatically
> | seperates it on spaces.  As long as none of them start with a dash, you
> | can parse it easily...
> 
> Or alternatively, use getopt, (I think it's that), so you can use -o or
> --option style arguments. AFAIK it'll handle all the parsing for you. You
> just specify each option and whether it has arguments and what type they
> are, etc.

It looks to me that you will run out of switches and the handling of
"unknown" options (the one for drivers) becomes a hassle.

But let us first decide the config file syntax/symantic and then decide
the options for the commandline and the priority.
(I can imagne something like '-c config1 -c config2 --heartbeat off' where
config2 overwrites the options from config1).

Bye Andre'
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