Actually I think WinBoard will accept options starting with either - or /. Not that that solves your problem. Generating two outputs seems reasonable. You might find a few other things that have to be conditionalized too.
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 11:39 PM, Arun Persaud <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > just a quick update that I'm working on merging the windboard.rtf file > into the xboard.texi documentation, so that we only have one file that > we need to keep track of. This will also have the advantage that we can > generate windows help files from .texi. > > Planning on adding a small tutorial section as an introduction to > XBoard/Winboard that HGM is working on. I'll also add a short > Installation section about what can be configured during the build. > > One problem that we have is that XBoard and Winboard have different > names. Also on Windows options start with "/" and not with "-". So for > the moment I'm thinking of producing two outputs from the .texi file: > one for windows and one for unix using the appropriate program name and > option-designator. > > Arun > >
