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  11. Subject: Re: sending variables on the command line
  12. Date: 31 Oct 1998 22:19:23 GMT
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  22. Could you elaborate on the decision to use "="?  I always thought "--"
  23. would have been better, as many programs (at least in *IX
  24. environments) use "--" to separate program options from program
  25. arguments (that would have been my choice).
  26. -- 
  27. Oooooo-oooo-oooo-ooooo, Oooooo-oooo-oooo-ooooo, Ooooo-weem-oh-wum-ooo-ayyy
  28. In the jungle, the silicon jungle, the process sleeps tonight.
  29. Joe Philipps <rchandra-nospam@letter.com> http://www.servtech.com/~rchandra/
  30. You know what you have to do to send email to me successfully :^)
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