#3 absolute pathnames are regarded as options (Linux)

[Anonymous]

when calling htp with absolute pathnames (beginning
with "/") for the files on linux it thinks that these
are options to htp.
example (copy&paste from console):

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bobby@schweinchen / $ htp
/mnt/daten/arbeit/webseiten/mathehomepage/test1/0Vorlagen/index.htp
/mnt/daten/arbeit/webseiten/mathehomepage/test1/index.html

htp 1.15 - HTML pre-processor
Copyright (c) 1995-96 Jim Nelson
Copyright (c) 2002-03 Jochen Hoenicke under Artistic
License
[Linux/Posix]

[*] unknown option
"mnt/daten/arbeit/webseiten/mathehomepage/test1/0Vorlagen/index.htp"
specified
[*] unknown option
"mnt/daten/arbeit/webseiten/mathehomepage/test1/index.html"
specified
Original author, Jim Nelson.
email: htp-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net
WWW: http://htp.sourceforge.net/

usage: htp [options] <source HTML file> <reformatted
HTML file>
htp [options] @<response file>
htp [options] @

See on-line reference for full details.

This is software is released unter the Artistic License.
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I think that the usage of "/" for options should be
completely disabled on linux. Or there should be at
least an extra option (e.g "--") which marks the end of
options. And everyting after this should then be
regarded as in-/output files. Otherwise htp is nearly
unusable in scripts.

Thanks&Bye!
Robert (karlderkleine@gmx.de)

[Michael Möller]

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We should consider what you propose (either disable
"/" for options or add the "--" marker).
But of course there is a very easy work-around for your
problem:
$
cd /mnt/daten/arbeit/webseiten/mathehomepage/test1/
$ htp 0Vorlagen/index.htp index.html

[Jochen Hoenicke]

This is now finally fixed in htp-1.18. I decided to force the options to start with "-" on all OSes.