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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Using getopt to parse multi-argument options
Message-ID: <9383@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 15 Jan 89 16:29:36 GMT
References: <3652@phri.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <3652@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
>	I'm writing a program which will take an optional range, in the
>style of graph(1)'s "-x xmin xmax".  How do I tell getopt to parse
>something like that?

You don't.  getopt() was written to support the Command Syntax
Standard, and that usage is a violation of the Standard.