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Subject: Re: Where is getopts(1)?
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In article <4658@brazos.Rice.edu> dna@math.psu.edu (Douglas N. Arnold) writes:
>X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 22, message 12 of 16

	[Complains that he can find only a manual page for `getopts']

>Does anyone know why this is or where I can find a getopts
>program compliant with the Sun manual page?  Thanks.

Beginning with the SVR3 /bin/sh, from which the SunOS 4.x /bin/sh is
derived, `getopts' is a shell builtin.  It doesn't exist for SunOS 3.x.

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