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From: mib@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Michael I Bushnell)
Subject: Re: long options
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Submitted-by: mib@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Michael I Bushnell)

In article <1991May28.010441.13817@uunet.uu.net> ONM07%DMSWWU1A.BITNET@VM1.gatech.edu (Julian F. Reschke) writes:

   I recently heard that future POSIX standards will document `long options'
   similar to those used in the GNU file utilities.

   (3) What about tools that do not use getopt (like pg, chmod, tar and so on)?

Note that GNU tar now uses getoldopt, which is called just like
getopt, but understands both the old tar option format and the new
format.  

	-mib


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