[ds6-devel] nc6 long options

[Mauro Tortonesi]

On Sun, 29 Dec 2002, Chris Leishman wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Just looking at the options currently defined in parser.c - it's
> getting pretty cluttered and I've already managed to break option
> compatibility with netcat :(  (oops)

it's not your fault. with all the different features of nc and nc6, it was
impossible not to have some conflicts :-P

> I think we should add in long options asap so that this can be cleared
> up.  Things like setting the buffer size, mtu & nru can be moved to
> long options - they don't need single letter mnemonics.

this is a very good idea. we should do it asap.

> I think the best (only?) choice would be to use the gnu getopt library
> (getopt_long) - but should we include the gnu getopt source into the
> source tree as well, or should we just assume that platforms not using
> glibc can install the libgnugetopt?

we should include getopt_long in the sources, with the autoconf replace
function facility.

BTW: i am just committing some changes to nc6. please take a look at the
     runtime configuration code. also, it seems that there are some
     problems with the configure script. i will try to fixe them ASAP.

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