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From: art@pilikia.pegasus.com (Art Neilson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Flags with more than one letter
Message-ID: <1991Apr12.181656.10013@pilikia.pegasus.com>
Date: 12 Apr 91 18:16:56 GMT
References: <1991Apr10.132106.4122@fmrco>
Organization: Pilikia, Honolulu
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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 ?

The GNU version of getopt does what you want.  If you can't find it
or don't have access to an archive site, I'll mail it to you.  Send
me email requesting it.
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