Bug#422466: dasher: command line options don't work

Sven Arvidsson sa at whiz.se
Sun May 6 22:22:58 UTC 2007


forwarded 422466 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=415711
thanks

On Sun, 2007-05-06 at 11:48 +0200, Roland Stigge wrote:
> the man page of dasher(1) says:
> 
> ===============================================================================
> OPTIONS
>        dasher takes the following options:
> 
>        -o     Dasher  will  appear without a text edit box and will default to
>               entering text into other windows.
> 
>        -p     Dasher will open a preferences window and not the main window.
> 
>        -s     Dasher will output the entered text to stdout whenever  stopped.
>               Only text entered since the last stop will be output.
> 
>        -w     Whenever Dasher is stopped, the time taken, number of characters
>               entered, and number of bits of information  will  be  displayed,
>               along with ratios of these quantities.
> ===============================================================================
> 
> However, each of those options makes dasher complain that it can't find the
> respective input file , e.g. '-o'.

Yes, looks like the man page is outdated.

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Sven Arvidsson
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