Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site harvard.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!decvax!genrad!wjh12!harvard!brownell From: brownell@harvard.UUCP (Dave Brownell) Newsgroups: net.cog-eng,net.unix Subject: Re: name=value or -n value? Message-ID: <187@harvard.UUCP> Date: Wed, 21-Mar-84 15:11:29 EST Article-I.D.: harvard.187 Posted: Wed Mar 21 15:11:29 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 22-Mar-84 02:35:58 EST References: <44@circe.UUCP> Organization: Aiken Computation Lab, Harvard Lines: 11 System V has a nice way of providing a standard: they have a library routine getopt(3) for use in C programming and a shell script version getopt(1) for Bourne shell/ Korn shell programming. It standardizes what most of us would agree is the current UNIX standard, with the possible exception of forcing flag arguments before file arguments (i.e., no mixing). I'ue used getopt(3) and liked it. I'd like to see it on Berkeley systems. Dave Brownell ...{decvax,linus,sdcsvax}!genrad!wjh12!harvard!brownell