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From: dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi)
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Subject: Re: Question about GETOPT(3)
Message-ID: <1143@cirrusl.UUCP>
Date: 1 Dec 89 02:13:56 GMT
References: <7043@ficc.uu.net> <110@amix.commodore.com> <7077@ficc.uu.net> <118@amix.commodore.com>
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Reply-To: dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi)
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In article <118@amix.commodore.com> ag@amix.commodore.com (Keith
Gabryelski) writes:

>Should we break this
>because some people can't put
>
>	S=/dev/stdin;export S
>
>in their .profile?

Some of you are being rather presumptuous when discussing the topic of
/dev/stdin vs "-".

The existence of getopt allows C programs to accept arguments in a
consistent way across many OSes, not just UNIX.  The idea of "use
standard input here" is also portable across many OSes.  The idea of
using "-" to mean "standard input" is also portable across many OSes.

The idea of /dev/stdin is NOT.

Rahul Dhesi <dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com>
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