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Tony, OK, I see what's going on now. Not very nice but I guess I can live with that ;) Best Regards, Jerzy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Hoyle" <tmh at nodomain.org> Newsgroups: support.cvsnt To: <cvsnt at cvsnt.org cvsnt downloads at march-hare.com @CVSNT on Twitter CVSNT on Facebook> Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 2:00 Subject: Re: [cvsnt] Re: Bug in command line parsing for tag command > Jerzy Kaczorowski wrote: > >>"a" is an argument. You want: > >>cvs.exe tag -- a -hyphenfile.txt > > > > > > The syntax is correct. "a" is an argument - tag name here - and after that > > Yes it's an argument, not an option. > > > it's followed by a double-hyphen to mark the end of options. After a "--" > > "--" marks the end of options... > > > there can be only files, and that is how the files starting with hyphen can > > ..or other arguments. > > > be properly handled by all other commands. If you don't specify the end of > > options command parser can't tell what's the file and takes the first > > character following the hyphen as an option resulting in errors, e.g.: > > You don't need to - cvsnt has done this automatically for a long time now. > > Tony > _______________________________________________ > cvsnt mailing list > cvsnt at cvsnt.org cvsnt downloads at march-hare.com @CVSNT on Twitter CVSNT on Facebook > http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt https://www.march-hare.com/cvspro/en.asp#downcvs >