WinHugs Command Line Parsing

[Phil Molyneux]

Hello --- This is to report a possible bug with WinHugs command line
parsing. We have installed hugs and winhugs from hugs98-Feb2001.msi.

We need to run hugs or winhugs with an option to set the editor, like this

-E"I:\business\winedt32\winedt.exe -E=H:\WinEdt.INI [Open('%s");SelLine(%d,7)]"

This tells Hugs to use the WinEdt editor which is given its -E option to set
the place it looks for an initialization file (ie the users local file not
the network copy) and to open the file %s at line %d with colour red (7).

With hugs.exe in a DOS box this option works fine. However with WinHugs we
get the error message

ERROR [Open(%d),SelLine(%d,7)]" - Unable to open file 
"[Open(%d),SelLine(%d,7)]""

and the editor is set to ``=H:\WinEdt.INI''

It looks as if the command line parsing for WinHugs (but not Hugs) is taking
the second ``-E'' as a Hugs option (not a WinEdt option).

A workround is to set registry settings or set the environment variable
HUGSFLAGS but command line options are safer since users may reset registry
settings and affect the next user of the machine (we are running MS-NT with
a Novell networks).

Has anybody else come across this problem and are there ways of quoting
things to get the command line to work for WinHugs?

Thanks --- Phil
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