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From: dcm@toysrus.uucp (dcm)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: getopt (3) problem?
Message-ID: <3489@awdprime.UUCP>
Date: 13 Sep 90 16:13:06 GMT
References: <1990Sep12.011152.26067@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> <4053@auspex.auspex.com>
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Reply-To: dcm@toysrus.austin.ibm.com (Craig Miller)
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In article <4053@auspex.auspex.com> guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
>>In compiling and running some things, I have found that getopt doesn't act
>>right. When it runs out of parameters instead of returning an EOF it returns
>>a -1. 
>
>You mean EOF *isn't* -1 on whatever kind of system you're using?  (It's


	*Of course* EOF is -1 on Aix.  We didn't mess with that!
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