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- Submitted-by: arnold%audiofax.com@mathcs.emory.edu (Arnold Robbins)
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- >In article <1991May28.010441.13817@uunet.uu.net> ONM07%DMSWWU1A.BITNET@VM1.gatech.edu (Julian F. Reschke) writes:
- >>I recently heard that future POSIX standards will document `long options'
- >>similar to those used in the GNU file utilities.
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- In article <1991May28.072936.26439@uunet.uu.net> randall@Virginia.EDU (Randall Atkinson) writes:
- > The above is the first I've heard of such a thing. The most
- >recently reviewed drafts of POSIX.2 and POSIX.2a, which cover the
- >Shell & Utilities area, don't seem to mention any such things.
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- I can pretty safely say that .2 isn't doing anything like adding gnu-like
- long options. I doubt .2a is either. The whole thrust of the POSIX effort
- is (supposed to be) to standardize existing practice. So far .1 and .2 have
- done OK at it. E.g., dd retains its current, er, *unusual* command line
- syntax. :-)
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