[screen-devel] [bug #29535] Doc addenum to command license

[Curtis Brown]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?29535>

                 Summary: Doc addenum to command license
                 Project: GNU Screen
            Submitted by: mrbrown8
            Submitted on: Mon 12 Apr 2010 11:04:54 PM MDT
                Category: Documentation
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: Cur Dev Sources
           Fixed Release: None
         Planned Release: 4.1.0
           Work Required: None

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Details:


Sadrul, I would like to thank you for expanding the license command to show
some of the capabilites that have been compiled into any particular version or
distribution of screen. I want to take advantage of this further. I wrote some
addition documentation to explain where to look when referencing about
compiling screen ("See license command"), but also I tried to expand what
capabilities were shown by adding more ifdef's to help.c. Overall, I thought
this would help users learn how capable their particular binaries were but
also might help developers learn what a user might be up against when trying
to explain a bug.

The one thing this patch is not working on is the displaying the value of
MAXWIN inside help.c. I thought the C preprocessor should pick this up and
replace it accordingly. The string is a static const char[]. I don't
understand enough about C strings to know if the preprocessor pays attention
to that or not. I tried adding extra code like: 
static char maxwinstr[10];
sprintf(maxwinstr, "%d", MAXWIN);
but that wasn't working for me either.

If this patch is acceptable, I'd like to learn what I'm not doing right.
Thanks in advance.




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Date: Mon 12 Apr 2010 11:04:54 PM MDT  Name:
patch_doc_addenum_license_and_help_c.diff  Size: 5kB   By: mrbrown8

<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=20209>

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