Re: getopt() in VMS gnucc?

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From: Richard Stallman
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1993 18:45

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GNU has a version of getopt already.  It is found in the GCC distribution.
It has three probable advantages over the BSD version:

* It supports long option names.

* It does not normally require all options to precede all other arguments.

* It is covered by the GPL, and thus helps make it easier to write
free programs by comparison with non-free programs.

(I can't be sure about the first two advantages since I am not certain
the BSD version doesn't have the same features.  But it is unlikely
that it does.)

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