Re: linux-ipsec: args from files

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> > - From the discussion, I remember someone (Henry?) suggesting using the

Agreed...I have been mucking around with gnu getopt with long options in the last couple of days and I can see how it would get really ugly.

> Actually, the convention I finally ended up with -- to the extent that I

This seems to make sense to have individual parameters accessible with a leading / or ./ to point to a file. Does it make sense to pull *all* the parameters from a file with the --file option?

> Henry Spencer

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