From: kkuzba{at}centurytel.net
To: c_echo{at}yahoogroups.com

* Author: CHARLES ANGELICH
CA>  The order of entry should be sufficient I would think if
CA>  valid filenames required more than one character prior to
CA>  the "." character.

    wordfind nocaps noabb stat bigfil.txt
    wordfind /nocaps /noabb stat bigfil.txt

    Parsing adds a lot of overhead.  Probably a simple matter for
 any programmer worth his salt, and no significant amount of time
 in processing for anything newer than a 16MHz XT.  Still... why
 bother when it is not needed and a simple conforming protocol is
 easier to code and to use.  One may also place a usage text into
 one's program which is triggered by the standardized /? or just
 the ? or even by no arguments being entered.  In a more complex
 setting than a command line, however, you would put all of your
 command variables into radio buttons or check boxes and your
 arguments would be in text boxes or dropdown lists or pulled from
 dialogs giving the user the available choices.  If you are going
 to supply order of entry parsing rules to the user, then the
 command line switches are just as easy to use and to remember, and
 to program into a help utility when the /? is invoked.

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