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- Submitted-by: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
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- > I recently heard that future POSIX standards will document `long options'
- > similar to those used in the GNU file utilities.
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- > (3) What about tools that do not use getopt (like pg, chmod, tar and so on)?
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- How does getopt support long options? I would think that standardising on long
- options would pretty much require a more sophisticated parser, such as Eric
- Allman's "parseargs".
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- Peter da Silva; Ferranti International Controls Corporation; +1 713 274 5180;
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- [ The GNU getopt supports long options, via +long_option_name, I believe.
- It qualifies as existing practice, I suppose. --mod ]
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- Volume-Number: Volume 23, Number 78
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