[GNC] Command Line Args

[Glenn Fowler]

Thank you, in that case is there documentation on the command line switches?

On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 6:06 PM John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

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>
> > On Apr 22, 2021, at 2:30 PM, Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:
> >
> > That is very VERY odd.  It works for me.  I wonder if this is a Windows
> bug?
>
> Not odd at all, and not a bug in the sense that Microsoft did it on
> purpose [1]. Windows executables have a couple of bytes in their preambles
> that say what type they are. Console apps have stdin, stdout, and stderr
> and so they require a shell window of some sort (CMD and Powershell being
> the most common) and will open one for you if you launch them from Windows
> File Explorer. The others redirect the basic FDs to NULL and so they don't
> need a shell window. gnucash is a Windows program (no basic FDs) and
> gnucash-cli is a Console program (has basic FDs).
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
> [1]
> https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/forum/ie11-iewindows_10/what-is-difference-between-console-application/f8bd3d4f-7c2c-4c86-a64b-41a046a38be4