Re: brloop not working

[Tom Gillman <syshtg@gsusgi2.Gsu.EDU>]

> 
> > The first arg of brutessl is the file from which to read the config info.
> > "-" is a unix convention for the file "stdin".
> 
> OK - I dig this, but brutessl on my Linux box is still complaining about 
> usage...(sorry about the bandwidth but I assume other people are probably 
> having similar problems)
> 
> ++ nice -20 brutessl -
> usage: brutessl [-q] <filename> <checksum> <start segment> <no of 
> segments>
>        brutessl [-q] -r <filename> [<no of segments>]
>        brutessl [-q] -t [<hours>[:<minutes>]]
>

Use 'nice -20 brutessl -- -' instead. The '--' tells getopts() not to parse
anything else as arguments, then the next '-' will be interpreted correctly.

Tom

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