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From: guido@cwi.nl (Guido van Rossum)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: command line parsing under X11
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Date: 2 Feb 89 22:19:52 GMT
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My strategy in such cases is to tell X or Xt about 'nearly impossible'
options starting with -a, -b, -c, etc.; e.g., "-a\377".  In this way at
least two-character abbreviations for any options Xt knows about are
required, and I can use getopt() or a similar parser for my own options.

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Guido van Rossum, Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI), Amsterdam
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Hackers' motto: "If all else fails, read the Unix kernel source."