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Old 10-13-2011
Well, yes -- but the function, what is it for?
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Old 10-13-2011
Hi again, and thank you for the explanation... the function was to send to the treeWalker function the values that getopt sends instead, that is, the input for treeWalker ,
Code:
void dirTreeWalker(char fileType, char *dirName)

in other words I was trying to "set getopt", just like you said , instead of using it. As it is now it works fine just by using getopt instead of trying to set it as I was doing.

Code:
while ((c = getopt(argc, argv, options)) != -1) {
    switch(c) {
    case 't':
        printf("t is set\n");
        break;
        
    case 'd':
        printf("d is set\n");
        fileType = 'd';
        printf("filename is %c\n", fileType);
        break;
    case 'f':
        printf("f is set\n");
        fileType = 'f';
        printf("filename is %c\n", fileType);
        break;
/*and so on*/

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