Re: [Gnumed-devel] Command line FreeDiams

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 03:42:34PM -0800, Jim Busser wrote:

> 1) I was able, on Mac OS 10.6x, to get FreeDiams to accept
> 
>       --patientname
> 
> from the command line, but not any of the other parameters
> (even by themselves). Is this yet known to work as intended
> on other *nix or on Windows?

It works on Linux.

> If not, what is that required form... is it
> 
>       <call application> --param1  --param2 --param3 ... ?

Yes.

> So... except for the part about --patientname being the only argument 
> successfully passed (screenshot), the following is what worked:
> 
>       open -a FreeDiams.app --args --patientname="James Kirk"

Try enclosing the whole dang thing in quotes:

open -a 'FreeDiams.app --patientname="James Kirk" --gender=M'

> 3) the argument would not work, if passed as "-" (single
> hyphen) ... it needed "--". If that is the required method
> on all platforms, then we need updating at:

I never tried - but am using -- on Linux, too.

Karsten
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