From b77e2528e7c20e9a42255a9d88e064413155a17f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Stenberg Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 23:47:08 +0000 Subject: made short options and their parmaters possible to specify without space separation --- CHANGES | 7 +++++++ docs/TODO | 9 +++------ 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES index 95d441267..b2c84c8cc 100644 --- a/CHANGES +++ b/CHANGES @@ -6,6 +6,13 @@ History of Changes +Daniel (11 January 2001) +- Short options to curl that requires parameters can now be specified without + having the option and its parameter space separated. -ofile works as good as + -o file. -m20 is equal to -m 20. Do note that this goes for single-letter + options only, verbose --long-style options still must be separated with + space from their parameters. + Daniel (8 January 2001) - Francis Dagenais reported that the SCO compiler still fails when compiling curl due to that getpass_r() prototype. I've now put it around #ifndef diff --git a/docs/TODO b/docs/TODO index a5c233689..e6a92a716 100644 --- a/docs/TODO +++ b/docs/TODO @@ -16,10 +16,6 @@ For the future * Make SSL session ids get used if multiple HTTPS documents from the same host is requested. - * Improve the command line option parser to accept '-m300' as well as the '-m - 300' convention. It should be able to work if '-m300' is considered to be - space separated to the next option. - * Make the curl tool support URLs that start with @ that would then mean that the following is a plain list with URLs to download. Thus @filename.txt reads a list of URLs from a local file. A fancy option would then be to @@ -31,8 +27,8 @@ For the future noticable when there's a resume going on. * Add a command line option that allows the output file to get the same time - stamp as the remote file. This requires some fiddling on FTP but comes - almost free for HTTP. + stamp as the remote file. We already are capable of fetching the remote + file's date. * Make the SSL layer option capable of using the Mozilla Security Services as an alternative to OpenSSL: @@ -43,6 +39,7 @@ For the future * Make the easy-interface support multiple file transfers. If they're done to the same host, they should use persistant connections or similar. + Figure out a nice design for this. * Add asynchronous name resolving, as this enables full timeout support for fork() systems. -- cgit v1.2.3