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- From: Donn Terry <donn@hpfcrn.hp.com>
-
- >From: Doug Gwyn <gwyn@smoke.brl.mil>
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- >In article <514@longway.TIC.COM> Donn Terry <donn@hpfcrn.hp.com> writes:
- >>I have been trying, so-far unsuccessfully, to get 1003.2 to reserve a
- >>namespace to the vendors for options for these commands (at least) ...
-
- >My recommendation for years has been that vendor additions be confined
- >to upper case, leaving lower case options for the (gradually growing)
- >standard environment.
-
- In general this works, but for compilers (in particular) there are often
- more than 26 options. I have suggtested the "+" flag for vendors, but
- that's also debateable.
-
- Donn Terry
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- Volume-Number: Volume 18, Number 44
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