Re: [Info-mtools] mattrib 4.0.10 - Bug - "usage" instead of resettting the hidden attribute (-h).

[Alain Knaff]

Arwin Vosselman wrote:
> If '-h' is used with mattrib, the attribute "hidden" is not reset, as it
> should be, but the usage message is shown instead.
> 
> The cause seems to be in the lines 199 and 200 in mattrib.c:
> 
> (199)  case 'h':
> (200)   usage(0);
> 
> Taking these two lines out solves the problem:
> =======================================================================
> diff -urN mtools-4.0.10.orig/mattrib.c mtools-4.0.10/mattrib.c
> --- mtools-4.0.10.orig/mattrib.c    2009-03-03 07:10:13.000000000 +0100
> +++ mtools-4.0.10/mattrib.c 2009-08-16 13:02:09.291620348 +0200
> @@ -196,8 +196,8 @@
>             case 'X':
>                 concise = 1;
>                 break;
> -           case 'h':
> -               usage(0);
> +/*         case 'h':
> +               usage(0);*/
>             case '?':
>                 usage(1);
>         }
> =========================
> Apparently -h is used for two different things (help and reset hidden
> attribute).
> 

This is now fixed in 4.0.11
If -h is given without anything else, usage is printed.
If -h is given along with filenames, the hidden flag is removed

Regards,

Alain