From: Tom E. <tr...@ba...> - 2006-01-26 16:37:12
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Coming from the peanut gallery here, but it seems to me that the requirement for an "empty" argument could be handled by using a simple shell script wrapper around the invocation that hides the actual command being executed. This is done regularly in Java so that Java applications can be invoked as: % foo arg1 arg2 arg3 instead of % java -cp "some/class/path:additions/" com.foo.bar.fooApp arg1 arg2 arg3 Why fix something that isn't demonstratably broken when there is a simple work around? -tree -- Tom Emerson Basis Technology Corp. Software Architect http://www.basistech.com "You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal." (W.S.B.) |