Glenn,

I know, and that's what Derek posted and what I added to the wiki page.

Regards,
John Ralls

> On Apr 22, 2021, at 4:35 PM, Glenn Fowler <gfowl...@outlook.com> wrote:
> 
>   Hi John, I was referring to gnucash command line switches, not gnucash-cli 
> command line switches as you mentioned earlier starting GnuCash with --extra 
> earlier in the post.  
> 
> On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 6:42 PM John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote:
> I've just added the current output of `gnucash --help` to 
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Logging#Command_Line_Options. It's the same as 
> Derek posted.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
> 
> 
> > On Apr 22, 2021, at 3:25 PM, Glenn Fowler <gfowl...@outlook.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Thank you, in that case is there documentation on the command line switches?
> > 
> > On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 6:06 PM John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > > On Apr 22, 2021, at 2:30 PM, Derek Atkins <de...@ihtfp.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > That is very VERY odd.  It works for me.  I wonder if this is a Windows 
> > > bug?
> > 
> > Not odd at all, and not a bug in the sense that Microsoft did it on purpose 
> > [1]. Windows executables have a couple of bytes in their preambles that say 
> > what type they are. Console apps have stdin, stdout, and stderr and so they 
> > require a shell window of some sort (CMD and Powershell being the most 
> > common) and will open one for you if you launch them from Windows File 
> > Explorer. The others redirect the basic FDs to NULL and so they don't need 
> > a shell window. gnucash is a Windows program (no basic FDs) and gnucash-cli 
> > is a Console program (has basic FDs).
> > 
> > Regards,
> > John Ralls
> > 
> > [1] 
> > https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/forum/ie11-iewindows_10/what-is-difference-between-console-application/f8bd3d4f-7c2c-4c86-a64b-41a046a38be4
> 

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