On 17 Mar 2004 at 13:00, Melchior FRANZ wrote:

> * David Luff -- Wednesday 17 March 2004 12:22:
> > On an (almost) totally unrelated note, I think it would be a good idea to
> > test unknown options against aircraft names, so that, for instance,
> > bin/fgfs --T38 would work to bring up the T38.  Would patches to add this
> > be accepted?
> 
> Urks. That would totally break Unix semantics. Options are options.
> Make that  $ fgfs T38
> 
> I've always thought that it would be nice if fgfs would accept one
> optional argument that would start it in a "situation". For example,
> one could make a file ~/.fgfs/situation/rescue that contains definitions
> to start with a bo105 (parked on a hospital helipad; doors open;
> engines off) or ~/.fgfs/situation/carrier etc. This would then be
> started as $ fgfs carrier.
>    OTOH, one could easily do this with a wrapper ... OK, I convinced
> myself and I'll implement this in my fgfs starter script *now* ...  :-)
> 

Maybe unix semantics are totally broken ;-)

OK, I see your point.  Please disregard the original brain-dump.  I stand by my 
assertion 
that it's preferable for the short-form aircraft name to be the user-visible one when 
possible though.

Cheers - Dave 

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