[GNC] Command Line Args

[John Ralls]

Glenn,

I know, and that's what Derek posted and what I added to the wiki page.

Regards,
John Ralls

> On Apr 22, 2021, at 4:35 PM, Glenn Fowler <gfowler1 at outlook.com> wrote:
> 
>   Hi John, I was referring to gnucash command line switches, not gnucash-cli command line switches as you mentioned earlier starting GnuCash with --extra earlier in the post.  
> 
> On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 6:42 PM John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
> I've just added the current output of `gnucash --help` to https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Logging#Command_Line_Options. It's the same as Derek posted.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
> 
> 
> > On Apr 22, 2021, at 3:25 PM, Glenn Fowler <gfowler1 at outlook.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 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:
> > 
> > 
> > > 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
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