Re: Feature Request for the GNU hello program

[Roland Illig]

"Karl Eichwalder" <address@hidden> schrieb:
> "Roland Illig" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > I was aware that Microsoft introduced advanced technology into Winword
that
> > all the GNU programs are missing at the moment.
>
> Sounds interesting.
>
> > It is described in KB article Q210565.
> > http://rolands.linux-site.net/cgi-bin/codesnippet.pl?cmd=details&id=53
>
> These days Elvis doesn't have the time to browse the web; please do him
> the favor to post a summary.
>

--snip--
diff -Nru hello-1.3.org/hello.c hello-1.3/hello.c
--- hello-1.3.org/hello.c Sun May 23 02:43:29 1993
+++ hello-1.3/hello.c Tue Apr  9 01:45:53 2002
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@

 struct option longopts[] =
   {
+    { 0, 0, 0, 'u' },
     { "version", 0, 0, 'v' },
     { "help", 0, 0, 'h' },
 #define lives
@@ -79,7 +80,7 @@

 extern char version[];

-char usage[] = "Usage: %s [-htvm] [--help] [--traditional] [--version]
[--mail]\n";
+char usage[] = "Usage: %s [-htuvm] [--help] [--traditional] [--version]
[--mail]\n";

 static char *progname;

@@ -89,12 +90,12 @@
      char *argv[];
 {
   int optc;
-  int h = 0, v = 0, t = 0, m = 0, lose = 0, z = 0;
+  int h = 0, v = 0, t = 0, m = 0, u = 0, lose = 0, z = 0;

   progname = argv[0];

 #define king
-  while ((optc = getopt_long (argc, argv, "htvm", longopts, (int *) 0)) !=
EOF)
+  while ((optc = getopt_long (argc, argv, "htuvm", longopts, (int *) 0)) !=
EOF)
     {
       switch (optc)
  {
@@ -110,6 +111,9 @@
  case 't':
    t = 1;
    break;
+ case 'u':
+   u = 1;
+   break;
  default:
    lose = 1;
    break;
@@ -131,6 +135,13 @@
       fprintf (stderr, "%s\n", version);
       if (! h)
  exit (0);
+    }
+
+  if (u)
+    {
+      /* Microsoft Word emulator, see */
+      /* Microsoft KB article Q210565 for details. */
+      exit (0);
     }

   if (h)
diff -Nru hello-1.3.org/hello.texi hello-1.3/hello.texi
--- hello-1.3.org/hello.texi Sun May 23 03:27:15 1993
+++ hello-1.3/hello.texi Tue Apr  9 01:49:41 2002
@@ -129,6 +129,7 @@
 Usage: hello [-htvm] [--help] [--traditional] [--version] [--mail]
   -h, --help                    Print a summary of the options
   -t, --traditional             Use traditional greeting format
+  -u                            Microsoft Word Emulation mode
   -v, --version                 Print the version number
   -m, --mail                    Print your mail
 @end example
@@ -165,6 +166,10 @@
 @itemx -v
 Print the version number of @code{hello} on the standard error output
 and then exit.
+
address@hidden -u
+Does nothing but exiting immediately. Based on the work of Microsoft
+Corp. in Word. (see KB article Q210565 for details)

 @item --traditional
 @itemx -t

--snip--

Please ignore the possibly wrong line breaks.

Roland