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- From: John Chambers (guest moderator) <ut-sally!std-unix>
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- Topic: getopt and command line arguments continued
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- Date: Wed, 10 Jul 85 09:53:45 EDT
- From: seismo!elsie!ado@ut-sally.ARPA
- Subject: getopt bundling brouhaha
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- Why all this brouhaha over whether or not getopt should allow option arguments
- to be bundled with option names? Let each user decide! People who wanted to
- bundle could place commands such as
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- GETOPT=b
- export GETOPT
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- in their login command files; getopt could check the GETOPT environment
- variable to see if it contained a 'b' and allow bundling if it did.
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- This method could be used to give users control over other aspects of
- getopt's behavior (whether to be sensitive to the case of option names;
- whether to recognize options anywhere on the command line; and so on).
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- John B. Chambers, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corp., Austin, TX
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- Volume-Number: Volume 1, Number 19
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