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From: mohamed@hscfvax.UUCP (750025@Mohamed_el_Lozy)
Newsgroups: net.sources
Subject: Re: Looking for a PD getopt?
Message-ID: <386@hscfvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 21-Apr-87 23:09:41 EST
Article-I.D.: hscfvax.386
Posted: Tue Apr 21 23:09:41 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 23-Apr-87 04:47:32 EST
References: <778@killer.UUCP> <5779@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Reply-To: mohamed@hscfvax.UUCP (750025@Mohamed_el_Lozy)
Organization: Health Sciences Computing Facility, Harvard University
Lines: 13
Keywords: getopt, unix, Public Domain, ?

In article <5779@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>In article <778@killer.UUCP> toma@killer.UUCP (Tom Armistead) writes:
>>Is there a version of getopt in the Public Domain - not the one used by
>>Shell but the function. getopt(3) I think???
>
>AT&T placed their implementation of getopt(3) into the public domain as a
>special exception to their general proprietary calims for their software.
>If you're registered with the UNIX System ToolChest, you can get a copy
>for just the transmission fee.  It differs from the SVR2.0 version only
>in the copyright notices (and perhaps SCCS ID).

There are two public domain getopt(3) implementations in the mod.sources
archives, one of them the AT&T one.