Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Method for applying patches to upgrade MINIX
Message-ID: <1989May31.183226.4588@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <16461@louie.udel.EDU>
Date: Wed, 31 May 89 18:32:26 GMT

In article <16461@louie.udel.EDU> rheffel@cs2.wsu.edu writes:
>     Nevertheless,  I  am  using in a personal capacity  Allen  Holub's 
>getargs() routine found in Dr.  Dobb's Journal May 1985.   I will write 
>such  a  routine from scratch at some point with some improvements  and 
>place it in the public domain...

You might want to consider that Unix already has a standardized, widely-
used option parser, with a public-domain implementation available:  getopt.
It's not as good in some ways, but programs written using it will be much
more portable.
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