Bug 228

Summary:	Reword a bit the command line switches in order to be less confusing for people
Product:	RLN	Reporter:	ggn <ggnkua>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	Shamus Hammons <jlhamm>
Status:	UNCONFIRMED ---
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	jlhamm
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All

Description ggn 2024-03-06 08:16:47 CST

In the command line help text (which is pretty much what people are getting with rln, we don't ship a manual with it), there are a few switches that confuse people. These are

-a <text> <data> <bss>  output absolute file (default: ABS)
-e                      output COF absolute file
-n 						output no file header to absolute file (overrides -e)


When people see "-a" they assume that rln is going to output a headerless binary assembled at an absolute address. Instead they get an ABS file, which is different (is that a relic from Alpine binaries? I honestly am not sure).

In any case, they might want a COFF binary for skunkboard or whatever, or just a binary file they can then turn into a ROM.

I would propose that if we don't want to change the switches work (probably a bad idea anyway) we should at least change the wording a bit. Something like:

-a <text> <data> <bss>  output ABS file (assembled at absolute address, includes header)
-e                      output COF file (assembled at absolute address, includes header)
-n 						output no file header to absolute file (overrides -e)