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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: dummy question
Date: 16 Oct 1996 15:26:46 +0100
Organization: Coverform Ltd.
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In article <5411l8$dr9@uriah.heep.sax.de>,
j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:
: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers) wrote:
:
>> In FreeBSD (and BSD in generial I believe), '-' *may* be treated as a
>> valid flag if the program wishes. If the program doesn't specifically
>> mention it, it behaves like "--".
:
: If i'm not very mistaken, Posix mandates that a single dash should be
: handled in lieu of a file argument for stdin or stdout. The double
: dash is the regular end of option processing.
I guess that's why getopt allows the caller to treat it as an option.
BTW, on another note J"org, I note that you're using knews. Does this
article thread correctly after your article in your view ? Your
previous article mis-threaded (I *think* due to knews on my end) - as
if knews doesn't handle header line continuations - even though it
writes them itself.
This threading lark is beginning to bug me :)
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
.