Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!pacbell!dplace!djl
From: djl@dplace.UUCP (Dave Lampe)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: getopt(3) man page
Message-ID: <486@dplace.UUCP>
Date: 25 Mar 89 06:44:32 GMT
Reply-To: djl@dplace.UUCP (Dave Lampe)
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There is an omission on the getopt(3c) manual page in the 3B1 documentation
for 3.51, opterr is missing.
Opterr is an external integer which if set to 0 will prevent getopt from
printing its error message on an unrecognized flag. The '?' will still
be returned and the application program can respond to the error. I have
no idea why it was left out of the 3B1 manual when I am sure it was in
other AT&T documentation.

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