Paulo> information and it seems like there is a 'template' for this Paulo> --help
Karl> The template, such as it is, is described in the GNU coding Karl> standards. Karl> http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Command_002dLine-Interfaces Karl> You can figure out the common formatting that most of us follow in Karl> practice just by looking at the examples from coreutils, texinfo, Karl> etc. (Don't look at diffutils, though. :) If any questions, feel Karl> free to ask. Paulo> Is there any script/software to generate --help replies and Paulo> put them in my C++ software? Karl> Not exactly (that I know of). There are some extended getopt-like Karl> libraries which will let you define a help string with each Karl> option, namely GNU autogen and (I think) GNU gengetopt. These are external programs, not libraries, are they? The only _library_ I know of that handles this is argp. -- A true pessimist won't be discouraged by a little success. _______________________________________________ help-gnu-utils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-utils
