Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Path: utzoo!utdoe!david
From: david@doe.utoronto.ca (David Megginson)
Subject: Re: standard practices
Message-ID: <1991Mar21.135421.25644@doe.utoronto.ca>
Summary: Keep things simple and people might follow them
Reply-To: david@doe.utoronto.ca (David Megginson)
Organization: Dictionary of Old English Project, University of Toronto
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1991 13:54:21 GMT

Gnu already seems to have a standard for long options. The Gnu fileutils
use either -v or +verbose, -r or +recursive, etc., and they have a function
getopt1() to deal with the longer options. We should probably standardise
this way, instead of using -help which could be an option -h with the
argument `elp'.


David

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