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- Submitted-by: mib@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Michael I Bushnell)
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- In article <1991May28.010441.13817@uunet.uu.net> ONM07%DMSWWU1A.BITNET@VM1.gatech.edu (Julian F. Reschke) writes:
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- I recently heard that future POSIX standards will document `long options'
- similar to those used in the GNU file utilities.
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- (3) What about tools that do not use getopt (like pg, chmod, tar and so on)?
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- Note that GNU tar now uses getoldopt, which is called just like
- getopt, but understands both the old tar option format and the new
- format.
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- -mib
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- Volume-Number: Volume 23, Number 79
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