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- From: John Quarterman (moderator) <std-unix-request@ut-sally>
- Topic: Retransmissions and dead subjects.
- Discussions-Of: UNIX standards, particularly the IEEE P1003 draft standard.
- Submissions-To: ut-sally!std-unix or std-unix@ut-sally.ARPA
- Comments-To: ut-sally!std-unix-request or std-unix-request@ut-sally.ARPA
- UUCP-Routes: {ihnp4,seismo,harvard,gatech}!ut-sally!std-unix
- Archives-In: ~ftp/pub/mod.std.unix on ut-sally.ARPA (soon sally.UTEXAS.EDU)
-
- The next four articles I will post to this newsgroup are retransmissions.
- This is because, in an overly clever attempt to reduce the overhead of
- the information formerly at the end of each article, I added the five
- non-standard headers you now see included as part of the text above.
- This is perfectly proper according to both the news article and mail
- message format specifications. However, some news (or notes) version
- out there cannot handle either non-standard headers or sheer numbers
- of headers and truncated all the articles which contained them. Also,
- as Robert Elz points out, most news reading programs will not display
- the extra headers anyway unless the user explicitly asks for them.
-
- Several people have complained that the getopt discussion is getting
- overly verbose for the amount of information conveyed. In particular,
- implementation details of the standard I/O library are rather peripheral
- to the standards effort, and would fit more readily in net.unix-wizards
- or mod.unix than in mod.std.unix. If you submit an article on getopt,
- try to make it something new. Better: let's go on to other topics.
-
- I am, however, still hoping someone will determine if there really is
- a public domain AT&T getopt and submit it, if so.
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 1, Number 36
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