needed runtime options

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On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Robert J. Brown wrote:

> I have multiple phone lines, on ISDN, one USR Courrier fax/data, one
> Zyxel Omni 288 S voice/fax/data with 3 distinctive rings, and I get
> them all to work with a single mgetty.config file and a single copy of 
> vgetty.  Why do you need multiple copies of vgetty or mgetty.config?

Oops, you're right, it's not all that necessary.  
What really motivated my wish for commandline specifiability of the
config file was something else:  I find it difficult to keep track of
the directory in which to look for it.  It is sometimes /etc or /usr/etc
or even /usr/local/etc (e.g. when compiled from an unmodified mgetty.spm
of SuSE 6.1).  Also, I am quite happy with being able to specify locations
of uucp config files in uucico via commandline switch.  This can be handy
for debugging.

-phm