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From: aglew%fang@gswd-vms.Gould.COM (Andy Glew)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Command interfaces
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Date: 29 Dec 87 19:36:05 GMT
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-ftw@datacube.UUCP writes:
-+ aglew@ccvaxa.UUCP (me) writes:
-+ > Well, in the days before I came to UNIX (using Whitesmith's on a PDP with
-+ > RT-11, if I remember correctly), I used to do:
-+ 
-+ <code example deleted>
-+ 
-+ Gee, why didn't you use getflags() ?
-+ 
-Well, I guess I'm stupid because never heard of getflags(). Nor has my
-Unix (V.2) manual. So, gee, why don't you enlighten us all ?
-
-Rob Fair
-ihnp4!pyuxww!pyuxf!robf2

getflags() was one of Whitesmith's quirky C routines, similar to getopt().
Whitesmith C had a lot of nonstandard but deserved to be a standard stuff.

I didn't use it for the same reasons that I don't use getopt() - I don't like
writing stuff twice, I don't like all single letter flags, I like having
"standard" sets of arguments and flags that I define in libraries, and I like
being able to use the same recognizer on .profile type files that I use
on the command line.

By the way: does anyone have the canonical Whitesmith to UNIX conversion
headers and libraries?

BTW2: there is no need to get snarky, guys. "Gee" doesn't have to be
pejorative.

Andy "Krazy" Glew. Gould CSD-Urbana.    1101 E. University, Urbana, IL 61801   
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