On Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 02:09:47PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > This should be trivial to translate to C. The only non-trivial part of > implementing this stuff is that you have to trick getopt() to make > -<num> work. You'll have to put a : at the start of your getopt() > string and examine every argument getopt() complains about.
Actually, the (FreeBSD) getopt(3) manpage includes at its end an example showing how to handle -<num> options. This is preceeded by bold letters: "backwards compatibility only". HTH. HAND. :) -- This is my .signature which gets appended to the end of my messages. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
