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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Question about GETOPT(3)
Message-ID: <11703@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 28 Nov 89 20:34:40 GMT
References: <7043@ficc.uu.net> <110@amix.commodore.com> <7077@ficc.uu.net> <118@amix.commodore.com> <7118@ficc.uu.net>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <7118@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>You might have problems if you have a program called
>'1', '2', and so on. That's pretty unlikely.

Not at all unlikely; I know several sites that have n-column columnators
named n (n = 2..6), and some have had a program named "1" that printed
out "one Bell system - it works" or "You're not in the editor, Bernie" or
some such reminder.  These are admittedly unlikely to be used immediately
after an ampersand.