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From: ark@alice.UucP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: getopt(3) posting FLAME
Message-ID: <4463@alice.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 20-Oct-85 17:52:46 EDT
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Posted: Sun Oct 20 17:52:46 1985
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> From this perspective, the "getopt" that's been posted to the network is the
> "real" getopt.  I know it'll be available on any machine my software goes to--
> simply because I can put the posted version of getopt on the tape I send.  The
> AT&T version of getopt is "unreal" from this perspective--there's nothing I can
> do (legally) to guarantee that it will be available at the receiving end.  Of
> course, there is something AT&T could do--put the source code for the "real"
> getopt.c in the public domain.  Hint, hint.

The source code for the "real" getopt.c is available at no charge
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