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From: levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: command line options
Message-ID: <2569@ttrdc.UUCP>
Date: 11 Apr 88 23:02:01 GMT
References: <2414@zyx.UUCP> <8039@elsie.UUCP> <7628@brl-smoke.ARPA> <143@gsg.UUCP> <8043@elsie.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T, Skokie, IL
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In article <8043@elsie.UUCP>, ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson) writes:
# > Ok, so use -, instead of -? if you have problems with the latter.
# 
# Or, for that matter, use -=, a la
# 			findspots -=
# Is this a technique that everyone can agree with?

All youse guys are missing the REALLY illegal, non-wildcard getopt option.
It is ":".  (Think of the way that the list of possible options is passed to
getopt and you'll know why.)
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