On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 11:34:45PM -0400, Will Lowe wrote: > > The problem is that when I did "xmessage -f /path/to/messagefile" > > I'm using the 3.3.6 debs on this machine, but "xmessage -f /tmp/x.msg" > gives me an xmessage containing "-f /tmp/x.msg", while "xmessage -file > /tmp/x.msg" works as expected. > > Perhaps you just need to spell out -file? > > Will > > Odd, that worked, but putting the message on the command line itself didn't Well, my purposes will now work, thanks for the debugging -- Frank aka Myth The unix learning curve may be steep, but at leas you only have to climb it once -- unknown
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