Re: getopt() musings

2003-12-03 Thread Chris Morgan
It has again been some time since I've sent mail about the getopt issues ;-) I too would like to see getopt_long() allow parameter reordering, I'm fine with getopt() preserving posix correctness. Is anyone currently taking a look at this? What would be involved in the process? Thanks, Chris

RE: getopt_long behavior

2003-01-29 Thread Chris Morgan
he consolation that at least since >Cygwin is open-source, you have the option to build it the way you >want it, if you want it bad enough. ;-) > >Larry > > >Original Message: >- >From: Chris Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 16:29:47 -

getopt_long behavior

2003-01-29 Thread Chris Morgan
I orginally posted this message some time ago. Having all of the cygwin tools lacking the ability to accept arguments in arbirtary order makes it more difficult to use them(I often do grep "string" *.c and then rerun with -i at the end). Is there anyway to get around this without recompiling the