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From: bd@hpda.UUCP (Bob Desinger)
Newsgroups: net.wanted.sources
Subject: Re: Getopt Source needed
Message-ID: <1244@hpda.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 1-Dec-85 17:21:37 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec  1 17:21:37 1985
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Cupertino, CA
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Keywords: getopt
Summary: Beware the AT&T Toolchest's getopt, you BSD'ers.

We got a version of getopt (free, I hear) from the AT&T Toolchest.  I
think we got what we paid for.  It didn't even compile under our 4.2BSD
system.

The code uses strchr() and strrchr() with no #ifdef INDEX or any other
courtesies like that.  It also has an "#ident" directive, which the
'4th Generation Make' documentation says is an obsolete cpp directive.
(It's obsolete if you're using the *new* make, which you can buy from
the AT&T Toolchest.  The old make/cpp never heard of it.  Perhaps it's
an 8th-edition development.)  Also, the makefile refers to a non-
existent program, evidently a cat-like program that tests getopt.
Sorta frustrating on all sides.

This is not the kind of Unix support I would have expected from AT&T,
nor the kind of coding quality I expected from the industry's largest
Unix vendor.

Bob Desinger
ucbvax!hpda!bd

PS:	Check your mod.sources archives for a better getopt.  There
	are two rival versions that have floated around, but I'm not
	sure which is superior.