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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
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Subject: Re: sending variables on the command line
Date: 2 Nov 1998 18:15:42 GMT
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In article <71g2db$l03$1@post.servtech.com>,
<rchandra.spamguard@spamguard.letter.com> wrote:
: Could you elaborate on the decision to use "="? I always thought "--"
: would have been better, as many programs (at least in *IX
: environments) use "--" to separate program options from program
: arguments (that would have been my choice).
:
No special reason. We (I) did this quite a while ago and had never seen
any guidelines on this. Do you have a reference?
- Frank