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From: karish@denali.UUCP (karish)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: command line options
Message-ID: <31@denali.UUCP>
Date: 31 Mar 88 10:08:34 GMT
References: <2414@zyx.UUCP> <1988Mar30.233142.2040@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: decvax!mindcrf!karish (Chuck Karish)
Organization: Mindcraft, Inc.
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In article <1988Mar30.233142.2040@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>> Does the ANSI C committee address this issue? Probably not, since
>> argument parsing can be quite different on various operating systems.
>> POSIX, perhaps?
>
>This one seems to have fallen down the crack between them, actually.
>It's definitely not in X3J11, and it wasn't in POSIX the last time I looked.

getopt() is, indeed, in POSIX, unless/until the 1003.2 committee
change their collective mind.

Chuck