rs@mirror.UUCP (10/24/86)
There are three public-domain implementations of getopt floating
around the net: one by Keith Bostic, one AT&T released into the
public domain, and one by Henry Spencer. The first two are
available from your nearest mod.sources archive.
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{mit-eddie, ihnp4, wjh12, cca, cbosgd, seismo}!mirror!rshenry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) (10/29/86)
> There are three public-domain implementations of getopt floating > around the net: one by Keith Bostic, one AT&T released into the > public domain, and one by Henry Spencer. The first two are > available from your nearest mod.sources archive. Speaking as the author of the third (which isn't in mod.sources because mod.sources didn't exist at the time), I would recommend the AT&T one. Not for any deep ideological reasons, but because it is the one that is guaranteed to get all the quirky details "right" (by the standards of other AT&T software). If for some reason the AT&T one isn't acceptable, Keith's is more recent than mine and more compatible with some features of the AT&T getopt that weren't documented when I did mine. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,pyramid}!utzoo!henry