home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- .\"----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- .\"-- This text was extracted using the following command:
- .\"-- xdoc -man -n -p '[ \t]*' -I SIDE-EFFECTS ../xparse.c
- .\"----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- .SH "SIDE EFFECTS"
- .PP
- Each of the functions in the \fIparseargs\fP library will set the external
- character string \fIProgName\fP to be the name of the last command that
- was operated upon by any of the library routines.
- .PP
- When an argument-descriptor array is first encountered by any of the
- parseargs library routines, it is initially compiled into an intermediate
- form that is more convenient to manipulate. As a direct result, it is not
- advisable to attempt to index directly into the array to manipulate one
- of the argument descriptors (because the argdesc that you thought was there
- may actually be somewhere else). After the array has been given its initial
- value(s), only \fIparsecntl\fP(3) should be used to manipulate or query the
- attributes of an argument descriptor.
-