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Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 14:30:20 +0200
From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Resume for KDEPaste external mode

On 15 Jun, 2013, at 8:15 , Michael Samuel <mik@...net.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Yes.  We already have the ".include [SECTION]" directive working in any
>> place of the configuration file(s) in jumbo.  Michael - perhaps you were
>> not aware of this?  Perhaps it'd address your needs.  I think you can
>> use it as a workaround for the currently missing ability to call
>> functions from external mode (just place whatever you wanted to have in
>> a function into a separate section and .include it, possibly more than
>> once, where you wanted to call the function).
>> 
> That would address part of my need.  The other thing that would be nice is
> being able to change the size of a declared array, based on a user-settable
> constant - eg. so I can create arrays of the right size, depending on a
> user setting.
> 
> Anyway, it's no big deal for me - it would just make end-users working with
> these random password generator style modes a little more user-friendly.

I've had some vague idea of implementing "argc/argv" for external mode but I'm not sure what syntax to use. Perhaps just like this:

	--external:mode:arg1:arg2:arg3

magnum

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