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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
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Subject: Re: Flags with more than one letter
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Date: 11 Apr 91 21:47:54 GMT
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In article <1991Apr10.132106.4122@fmrco>, harold@fmrco (Harold Naparst) writes:
|> How do you pass flags to main() with more than one letter?
|> I am using getopt, and it only allows flags with one letter.
|> Is there another option parsing program I should know 
|> about ?

  There is no other option parsing package in the standard Unix distribution. 
There is, however, the "parseargs" package which was posted recently to
comp.sources.misc.  If you don't know how to check comp.sources.misc and the
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