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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: <7663@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 12 Apr 88 12:52:56 GMT
References: <2414@zyx.UUCP> <8039@elsie.UUCP> <7628@brl-smoke.ARPA> <143@gsg.UUCP> <8043@elsie.UUCP> <2569@ttrdc.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <2569@ttrdc.UUCP> levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy) writes:
>All youse guys are missing the REALLY illegal, non-wildcard getopt option.
>It is ":".

Actually I didn't miss it.  The same yoyo implementor who is likely to
make = a valid option is also likely to pass getopts a list like ":abc:d:ef".