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- From: hankedr@dms.auburn.edu (Darrel Hankerson)
- Subject: Re: is getopt() ANSI and portable ?
- In-Reply-To: mjs@hubcap.clemson.edu's message of 22 Mar 96 02:23:57 GMT
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- Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 03:28:08 GMT
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- In article <mjs.827461437@hubcap> mjs@hubcap.clemson.edu (M. J. Saltzman) writes:
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- Horton also mentions a more capable public-domain version due to Henry
- Spencer. Anybody know where to find it?
-
- I thought it might be on the ftp.cs.toronto.edu site mentioned in
- Summit's "C Programming FAQs" (Addison-Wesley; nicely done), but could
- not find it on a quick look.
-
- However, Darwin's "file" used Spencer's getopt, so if you cannot find
- a better source, try
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- http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/systems/msdos/gnuish/file39a.zip
-
- Libes' "Expect" book (O'Reilly) mentions that an article by Spencer on
- his regular-expression code will appear in "Software Solutions in C"
- edited by Schumacher; perhaps it contains a pointer to Spencer's getopt.
-
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- --Darrel Hankerson hankedr@mail.auburn.edu
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