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Re: Can "type" take "-p" and "-t" flags?

#387
From: David MacKenzie
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1989 16:38
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In article <8907251540.AA24308@aurel.caltech.edu> bfox@aurel.caltech.edu writes:
>-type and -path are more GNU'y.  Isn't that the operating system that
>this shell is being written for?

Judging by the GNU getopt(), '+type' and '+path' are more GNU'y; few
GNU programs use multiple-character switch names preceeded by a dash
(gcc is one).
-- 
David MacKenzie
mackenzi@thor.stolaf.edu or edf@rocky2.rockefeller.edu
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From: mackenzi@thor.acc.stolaf.edu (David MacKenzie)
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Subject: Re: Can "type" take "-p" and "-t" flags?
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Date: 26 Jul 89 16:38:24 GMT
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