> >> Interestingly, the current command line parsing > rejects "" for some > >> reason: > >> > >> > >> $ xboard -gateway localhost -ics -icshost > freechess.org -remoteUser "" > >> xboard: No value provided for argument > -remoteUser > >> > >> > >> That's a bug too -- "" is an empty string; it's > not "no value". > > This is not something we can help. It is the shell > that does this. Empty > > strings in the settings file work perfectly. So the > internal parser seems > > OK. > Are you sure? I would think that if you have an argument > "" > then the shell would pass the empty string as the > corresponding argument > to main. > > Michel >
I could be wrong but is this one of those times when you need to use the backslash as in: xboard -gateway localhost -ics -icshost freechess.org -remoteUser \"\" I know there have been issues before with special characters in the shell. 'man bash' will probably explain more.
