Adding an option

Werner Koch wk@gnupg.org
Wed Aug 29 09:45:02 2001


On Tue, 28 Aug 2001 13:26:23 -0500, "Jonathan Hayward said:


> In my Tcl extension, I'm trying to add an option --passphrase
> <passphrase>. 
Don't do this, everyone can do a ps and view the passphrase.
> What are the steps involved in registering an option with the argument
> parser? It looks like I've left something out.
Add a new name into the option enum (oFoo), add an entry to the list of options (use another otion which takes a string as a template) and finally add a case oFoo to the big options switch in main(). I thing --comment may be a goog example. Werner -- Werner Koch Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur g10 Code GmbH et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est. Privacy Solutions -- Augustinus