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From: purtill@petrus.UUCP (Mark Purtill)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Question on getopt()
Message-ID: <240@petrus.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 25-Jul-86 17:55:38 EDT
Article-I.D.: petrus.240
Posted: Fri Jul 25 17:55:38 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 26-Jul-86 05:13:47 EDT
References: <14935@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <1078@ttrdc.UUCP>
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In article <1078@ttrdc.UUCP>, levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy) writes:
> In article <14935@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, kos@ernie.Berkeley.EDU (Joshua Kosman) writes:
> >Anybody know an easy way to intercept, suppress or otherwise get rid of the
> >error message that getopt() issues when user supplies an illegal flag?
...
>      GETOPT(3C)		       UNIX System V		    GETOPT(3C)
...
> 	  included in optstring.  This error message may be disabled
>                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 	  by setting opterr to a non-zero value.
>           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>      ...
> Please, read the man page.
...

Not that the man page we have here (seems to be BSB 4.3) does not have the
sentence marked with ^^^^s for a very good reason:  its not true.  Under
4.3 you can't suppress the messages except by rewriting getopt. Why did 
you(dan) assume someone from Berkeley was using sys V?

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