ok, In the example script that you included in the bug, place "--" as an argument just after "-menubox". Then further arguments that start with - such as "-The Great Unix Clone" are not interpreted by getopt as options, but passed directly and interpreted as desired.
This is a standard feature of getopt and used in many such programs to avoid strings starting with "-" from incorrectly being interpreted as options. It works in this case, and I documented such in the man page. The error message could be clearer; it should have explained why "-The" was wrong, and I will leave this report open until this is fixed. Regards Alastair On Domh, 2005-07-10 at 15:25 +0300, Ognyan Kulev wrote: > reopen 284708 > thanks > > I can't see how this upload closes #284708. > > Regards, > ogi > > Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report > > #284708: Automatic decompression of *.gz files, > > which was filed against the syslog-summary package. > > > newt (0.51.6-27) unstable; urgency=low > > . > > * Translations: > > - Wolof (wo) thanks to Mouhamadou Mamoune Mbacke. Closes: #317535. > > * Add explanation to whiptail man page as to how to start text with a > > dash > > '-'. Closes: #284708. > > * Move to Standards-Version: 3.6.2 > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
