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From: swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: command line parsing under X11
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Date: 2 Feb 89 14:13:47 GMT
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> Now, if we are going to keep this method of argument parsing, I
> would like to suggest that it be extended. Currently, XrmParseCommand
> can handle at most one argument after an option, and, of course,
> I have some options that take two or more arguments.

I would be amenable to a proposal to extend XrmOptionKind to include
a type XrmoptionSkipNArgs which uses the value field as a count of
args to be skipped.  Since XrmOptionKind is an enum with only 6 values,
it seems likely that this could be extended by 1 more without loosing
binary compatibility on most compilers.  Anyone know of any pitfalls?
(Yes, it's not truly safe, but... :-)