Re: [Smartmontools-support]first cut at long options

[Bruce A. <ba...@gr...>]

Oops, forgot to attach list.  See end.

Bruce

On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, Bruce Allen wrote:

> Phil,
> 
> Here is my first cut at a set of long options.  I haven't yet tackled the
> problem of renaming the short options in a more logical way.
> 
> Please have a look and send comments.  The thing that I think might be
> most difficult to deal with (but perhaps it is easy) is that in some cases
> I would like to replace two short options like -e and -d with a single
> long option --smart that takes are argument "on" or "off".
> 
> Another complication is I'd like to replace the -S and -s options by
> --shortselftest and --shortselftest captive respectively (eg, an optional
> argument).
> 
> Please have a good look and tell me if you think that these types of
> changes are feasible.  Look especially at -t, -T, and -O.
> 
> Also, how about proposing a new set of short options?
> 
> Cheers,
> 	Bruce



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