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From: ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: command line options
Message-ID: <583@mtxinu.UUCP>
Date: 11 Apr 88 01:00:51 GMT
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Reply-To: ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould)
Organization: mt Xinu, Berkeley
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Doug Gwyn:
>You miss the point; -? already has the desired property; it does not
>have to be explicitly added to every application.  I'm sorry if you
>choose to use a shell that makes this too difficult to type.

Actually, I think that you miss the point.  What shell do you use that
doesn't expand -? when it matches a file name?  The point is that this
use in getopt() abuses an existing construct.

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