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  8. From: heiby_u@falkor.chi.il.us (Ron Heiby)
  9. Subject: Re: sending variables on the command line
  10. Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 06:17:21 GMT
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  26. On 2 Nov 1998 18:15:42 GMT, fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
  27. wrote:
  28. >Do you have a reference?
  29.  
  30. Try "man 3 getopt". :-)
  31.  
  32. More seriously, I don't have my primary references at hand, but I
  33. believe that it is part of the IEEE 1003 (POSIX) specification.
  34.  
  35. Quoting from the FreeBSD 3.0 man page: "The interpretation of options
  36. in the argument list may be canceled by the option `--' (double dash)
  37. which causes getopt() to signal the end of argument processing and
  38. return -1."
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  50. Ron.