On 9/23/05, Art Hunkins <abhunkin@uncg.edu> wrote:
> Yes. There are, nonetheless, reasons for doing more:
>
> 1) csound -help would be more intuitive. I easily forget about the double
> dash; and now we have the -+ as well. Information overload; frustration.

Double dash is a long held convention for unix commandline programs. 
The convention is:

single dash + single letter = short form of option
double dash + long string = long form of option

I have *no* desire whatsoever for a change to this convention for
csound.  One you know --help, all the other options are easy to find
and look up.


> 2) On WindowsME working from a performance window, my window does not
> scroll. More frustration, given the length of the list. (I've gone nearly
> wacko trying to get -z to stop listing where I needed it to.) This material
> viewed in Notepad is easy to navigate (and can be left open).

For windows, open up a commandline and type either of these:

csound -z > out.txt
csound -z1 > out.txt

to get it out to a text file, or:

csound -z | more
csound -z1 | more

Which you can then press spacebar to scroll one page at a time.

> 3) I'd like to easily make a hard copy. (My memory isn't what it used to
> be - if it ever was.)

For windows, open up a commandline and type:
csound --help > out.txt

A file called out.txt will have everything from the --help output there.

steven
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