-help

[glen e. p. ropella]

Rick Riolo writes:
 > I noticed that apps compiled with swarm-1.0.4
 > (and I see now even 1.0.3) accept and print a bit of help
 > when -help is put in the run command.
 > 
 > Did I miss the announcement of that option?
 > Who (ie what object) is providing that service?
 > 
 > My apps process runtime parameters themselves, and in the past
 > I had the objects that  recognize -help (and -h)
 > and put out some help.   
 > So I it would be nice if I could override (or add to) 
 > the -help help that something in the kernel gives now.
 > 
 > Any advice?

Hey Rick,

There's a function called printHelp in simtools.m that 
prints that message in response to the the command line
parsing in initSwarm().

glen

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