Re: lynx-dev Command-line options and DOS [patch]

[Klaus Weide]

On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Gisle Vanem wrote:

> I don't agree that "-wdebug" switch should be handled specially
> like this (only "-help", "-show_cfg" etc. needs such special early
> attention).
>  
> The PARSE_FUN should be sufficient provided dbug_init + sock_init are
> moved much further down in main() function and after parse_arg() is
> called. "-nosocks" and "-lss" should IMHO be treated similarily.

AFAIK, the only reason -lss is handled the way it is: -lss=lynx.lss
looks similar to -cfg=lynx.cfg, so handling code was put and kept in the
same places.  I don't know about -nosocks, maybe at one point there
was a good reason to handle it "early".

   Klaus