POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.beta-test : [Linux] -h doesn't seem to work. : Re: [Linux] -h doesn't seem to work. Server Time
29 Jul 2024 20:16:37 EDT (-0400)
  Re: [Linux] -h doesn't seem to work.  
From: Mark Gordon
Date: 18 Mar 2002 20:01:08
Message: <3c968dd4$1@news.povray.org>
On Sat, 09 Mar 2002 12:27:11 -0500, Mark Gordon wrote:

> On Sat, 09 Mar 2002 09:42:22 -0500, Steve wrote:
>  
>> -h[0-7] told me that it needed an integer so I assumed I was typing the
>> command wrong there and didn't include it in the examples I posted.
> 
> I'm using a Unix shell globbing construction. By "-h[0-7]" I mean "-h0
> or -h1 or ... -h7".  -h alone gives the full usage summary, as Thorsten
> mentions, so what's broken currently is the ability to get subsets of
> the usage summary.

OK, there's a change in the syntax.  From now on, use -?0, -?1 ....  This
should be less confusing to the user than overloading -h.  The usage
summary and the man page have been updated.

This bug is effectively fixed in the current beta.

-Mark Gordon


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