Re: [AD] dat

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> The options -f and -r are indeed both sensible in their new meaning,
> although using -R rather than -r for recursive directories may be more
> common in other utilities (I don't know for sure though).

Yes, but let's stay with case-insensitive options for the time being.

> That said, I do think it makes sense to differentiate between upper and
> lower case options and reconsider support for --descriptive options. I've
> tried to remember what the problem was with those and I seem to recall it
> had something to do with the commandline options for the DJGPP port being
> limited to a certain size...?

I don't know.  GNU style options would indeed be welcome.

> Regarding the name open_folder()... is that going to be the name of the
> function? I'm asking because I don't associate the word folder with a
> directory (yes, I know I'm probably a bit of a dinosaur in this regard)
> and I think the naming might be inconsistent with Allegro's present naming
> scheme (at least in documentation and comments if not in function naming).

No, it's gone, see the patch.

-- 
Eric Botcazou




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