"shatty" <shatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >And there are those that allow flags and then soak up >the rest of the arguments as a list of filenames or >other strings. >mkbfs isn't this complicated at all, but since I've >seen so many different approaches in the cvs I thought >it best to raise the issue. (perhaps multiple solutions are Did you have a look at the mkdos program yet? It is in CVS. And I think the thing you are looking for is getopt() regards Marcus