On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 12:56:37PM -0500, Perry Smith wrote: > On my Mac systems, this work. On my AIX system it does not. I get: > > createdb dog -E utf8 > createdb: too many command-line arguments (first is "utf8") > Try "createdb --help" for more information. > > Has anyone else bumped in to this? Is putting the arguments after > the database name known to work? Looking at the code, it seems > rather magical that it works but I just looked at the main routine in > createdb.c and not the routines it calls. It's been a while since I've dealt with AIX, but try putting your options before the option-less arguments. How it works is not magical, it's just using getopt_long, and some getopts stop checking for options after the first non-option argument it receives. -- Seneca tentra@xxxxxxxxx ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly