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From: rdavis@convex.UUCP (Ray Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: command line options
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Date: 13 Apr 88 21:22:49 GMT
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Filename expansion was in the shell a long time before getopt(1|3)
existed.  -? is intuitive to me, but using a filename generation
metacharacter as a command line option was a stupid idea in the
first place.  -help is worse.