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- From: John Quarterman (moderator) <ut-sally!std-unix>
-
- Topic: more on getopt (command line arguments)
-
- This article will be followed by one more, containing source and man page
- for a public domain getopt. That should about wrap this subject up. -mod
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- From: Randy D. Smith <ihnp4!decvax!mcnc!rtp47!smithrd>
- Date: Mon, 1 Jul 85 07:58:42 edt
- Apparently-To: mcnc!ihnp4!ut-sally!std-unix
-
- P1003 definitely intends to address commands and the command
- interface (e.g., sh). That work has been sidetracked in order
- to devote our efforts to getting the current core of the draft
- (system call stuff) out the door. I believe everyone on the
- committee fully expects that commands/command line will be a
- top priority after the draft goes out, is balloted, and the
- ballots are resolved.
-
- There has been some consensus already on the command line interface,
- based on "An Enhanced Getopt" by T. C. Jones and L. A. Kennedy
- of AT&T Bell Labs. As mentioned in previous messages, this should
- help us in the future, although history already stuck us with
- a variety of interfaces to existing commands.
- --
- Randy D. Smith (919) 248-6136
- Data General, Research Triangle Park, NC
- <the known world>!mcnc!rti-sel!rtp47!smithrd
- <General disclaimer:
- :r jsq's original posting about committee member's opinions
- being their own and not that of the entire committee...
- >
-
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-
- Date: Wed, 3 Jul 85 11:06:19 edt
- From: seismo!ulysses!smb (Steven Bellovin)
- To: ut-sally!std-unix
- Subject: Re: command line arguments
-
- I believe I heard at Usenix that AT&T has put their version of getopt()
- into the public domain. Can anyone confirm this?
-
- --Steve Bellovin
- ulysses!smb
-
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-
- Date: Sat, 29 Jun 85 16:55:37 edt
- From: ihnp4!utcs!ian (Ian F. Darwin)
- To: ut-sally!jsq
-
- There is an AT&T standard for command line arguments.
- It was published about a year ago (washington??).
- It is included in the Sys V interface Definition, page 343
- of the Spring 85 edition.
-
- There is a routine called `getopt(3)' that parses options
- according to this standard. Bell published the `official'
- source at UniForum in Dallas; several public-domain versions
- (at least one with cleaner coding style!) have appeared on
- the net. Send me mail if you don't have a copy, because
- *everybody writing C programs should be using getopt()
- to parse their command line options*.
-
- Thanks
-
- Ian Darwin, Toronto
- ihnp4!darwin!ian
-
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-
- John Quarterman, jsq@ut-sally.ARPA, {ihnp4,seismo,ctvax}!ut-sally!jsq
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- Volume-Number: Volume 1, Number 08
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