From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Any Good dmr Anecdotes?
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2018 20:12:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180711031206.GG2012@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP6exYLOtkUOE1h5GSM8rWH8vZoOMbty2KpMrJ8L8zmXcx-Kvg@mail.gmail.com>
Nope, it went sideways. But some of the most fun information I've gotten
here went sideways. But if I offend I do beg your forgiveness.
On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 06:37:23PM -0700, ron minnich wrote:
> this is a DMR anecdote?
>
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 6:32 PM Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 10:20:50AM +1000, Noel Hunt wrote:
> > > I'm surprised why anyone would bother with these routines
> > > anymore, given the startling simplicity of Plan9's arg(3).
> > > One stands in awe of such simplicity. I believe it was
> > > William Cheswick who designed it, but I may be wrong.
> >
> > It's nice but I like long opts. The getopt in BK (and now in L)
> > looks like this and produces its own help (which does miss the
> > short opts, my bad, I could fix that). Look at the default in
> > the switch:
> >
> > int
> > main(int ac, string av[])
> > {
> > string c;
> > string lopts[] = {
> > "bigy:",
> > "date-split",
> > "exif",
> > "exif-hover",
> > "force",
> > "index:",
> > "names",
> > "nav",
> > "parallel:",
> > "quiet",
> > "regen",
> > "reverse",
> > "sharpen",
> > "slide:",
> > "thumbnails",
> > "title:",
> > "ysize:",
> > };
> >
> > while (c = getopt(av, "fj:", lopts)) {
> > switch (c) {
> > case "bigy": bigy = (int)optarg; break;
> > case "date-split": dates = 1; break;
> > case "exif": exif = 1; break;
> > case "exif-hover": exif_hover = 1; break;
> > case "f":
> > case "force":
> > case "regen":
> > force = 1; break;
> > case "index": indexf = optarg; break;
> > case "j":
> > case "parallel": parallel = (int)optarg; break;
> > case "quiet": quiet = 1; break;
> > case "names": names = 1; break;
> > case "nav": nav = 1; break;
> > case "reverse": reverse = 1; break;
> > case "sharpen": sharpen = 1; break;
> > case "slide": slidef = optarg; break;
> > case "title": title = optarg; break;
> > case "thumbnails": thumbnails = 1; break;
> > case "ysize": ysize = (int)optarg; break;
> > default:
> > printf("Usage: photos.l");
> > foreach(c in lopts) {
> > if (c =~ /(.*):/) {
> > printf(" --%s=<val>", $1);
> > } else {
> > printf(" --%s", c);
> > }
> > }
> > printf("\n");
> > return(0);
> > }
> > }
> >
--
---
Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com http://www.mcvoy.com/lm
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-11 3:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-29 7:53 Warren Toomey
2018-06-29 10:53 ` ches@Cheswick.com
2018-06-29 12:51 ` John P. Linderman
2018-06-30 0:50 ` Steve Johnson
2018-06-30 11:44 ` Arrigo Triulzi
2018-06-30 22:42 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-06-30 23:29 ` Arrigo Triulzi
2018-07-01 4:17 ` Larry McVoy
2018-07-01 11:42 ` ron
2018-07-01 5:29 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-07-01 8:28 ` Arrigo Triulzi
2018-07-01 11:34 ` ron
2018-07-09 16:30 ` Random832
2018-07-09 17:13 ` Clem Cole
2018-07-10 5:54 ` arnold
2018-07-10 6:09 ` George Michaelson
2018-07-10 7:19 ` arnold
2018-07-11 0:20 ` Noel Hunt
2018-07-11 1:31 ` Larry McVoy
2018-07-11 1:37 ` George Michaelson
2018-07-11 1:37 ` ron minnich
2018-07-11 3:12 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2018-07-11 3:34 ` [TUHS] getopt (was " Bakul Shah
2018-07-13 9:08 ` [TUHS] " ches@Cheswick.com
2018-07-13 14:10 ` ron
2018-07-10 14:10 ` Clem Cole
2018-07-03 17:34 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-29 23:55 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-06-30 0:06 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2018-06-30 14:20 ` John P. Linderman
2018-06-30 1:31 Larry McVoy
2018-06-30 1:45 ` Jon Forrest
2018-06-30 18:43 ` Steve Johnson
2018-07-01 16:35 Norman Wilson
2018-07-02 19:55 Paul Ruizendaal
2018-07-03 7:27 arnold
2018-07-18 9:42 Hendrik Jan Thomassen
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