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
>
>

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