Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mstan!dff
From: dff@Morgan.COM (Daniel F. Fisher)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Command Syntax Standard (was Re: Using getopt to parse multi-argument options)
Summary: Info and applicability requested
Keywords: getopt()
Message-ID: <204@s5.Morgan.COM>
Date: 16 Jan 89 07:06:10 GMT
References: <3652@phri.UUCP> <9383@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: dff@Morgan.COM (Daniel F. Fisher)
Organization: Morgan Stanley and Co., NY, NY
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In article <9383@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
>            getopt() was written to support the Command Syntax
>Standard, and that usage is a violation of the Standard.

What is the Command Syntax Standard?
Who is supposed to conform to it?
To what is it applicable?
Who defined it?
Where do I get a copy it?
Is it part of the SVID?

Email me, and I will summarize if there is interest.  If there is
a more appropriate newsgroup for this, please let me know.

Thanks
-- 
Daniel F. Fisher
dff@morgan.com