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RE: Setup patch: List command line options on stdout
- From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>
- To: <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 21:11:10 -0600
- Subject: RE: Setup patch: List command line options on stdout
[snip]
> I really don't understand why we should stand on our heads to
> make setup.exe a console subsystem program (you don't need to
> both specify -mwindows and -Wl,--subsystem=console, btw) when
> you can just open up a dialog box to display the options,
> like every other windows program in the world.
I can't say I've ever seen a Windows app do this. Most simply don't have
command line options. Those that do document them in "Help". Of course we
don't have that either....
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Gary R. Van Sickle