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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: command line options
Message-ID: <7628@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 7 Apr 88 20:38:37 GMT
References: <2414@zyx.UUCP> <8039@elsie.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <8039@elsie.UUCP> ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson) writes:
>I want some uniform way of getting programs to output their usage messages.

Under the existing getopts scheme, typing
	command -?
is guaranteed to get the usage message.