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Re: gnuchess does not honor --version and --help
From: |
Simon Waters |
Subject: |
Re: gnuchess does not honor --version and --help |
Date: |
Sun, 22 Dec 2002 22:33:57 +0000 |
Yann Dirson wrote:
>
> The --help and --version flags are expected of all GNU programs
> nowadays. It's quite inconvenient that none of them work, and that
> either of them gets just silently ignored by the program.
I'll ensure they are in 5.06.
> Especially, a reliable means of finding out the inxtalled gnuchess
> version is needed. Gcompris currently needs to ensure that version 5
> or later is installed, but does not have a clean way to do that.
GNU Chess 5, reports version string on starting, and implements
a "version" command, although I appreciate it may be too late at
those points.