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- From: peter@ficc.uucp
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- In article <729@longway.TIC.COM> From: David J. MacKenzie <djm@eng.umd.edu>
- > Parseargs has a lot of problems; I looked at it and discarded it.
-
- On the other hand, I looked at it and fixed them. Check comp.sources.misc.
-
- > It
- > might provide a superior interface to the programmer, but it doesn't
- > provide the same interface to the user; that is, it doesn't conform to
- > the standard Unix option syntax that most programs use (allowing
- > ganging of multiple single-letter options into a single argument, for
- > example).
-
- Actually, it does do this. You shoulda looked harder. What it doesn't do
- is handle variable nubers of arguments, which is one thing I fixed.
-
- > Since getopt is an existing-practice de-facto standard, I
- > see no justification for trying to push something quite different that
- > hardly anyone uses as an IEEE standard.
-
- Given the things that have already gone in to POSIX, even the almighty
- base (such as fgetpos, or banning silent truncation of long file names)
- I think that's a bit of a quibble. Getopt pretty much has to stay, I
- agree. But parseargs should be considered as a recommended alternative.
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