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In article <1991Nov6.163614.942@nntp.uoregon.edu> haertel@euclid.uoregon.edu writes:

   I don't think long options are of any use themselves, but I occasionally
   find it helpful that getopt has long names compiled in with the short names,

   Brian Fox would probably tell you that the long options will be useful
   someday for shell completion of program options.

   I doubt whether I'll ever type a long option name though...

If you mean `type a long option name to an interactive shell', I would agree.
It would make me feel silly.

However, the one place where I adore long options is in shell scripts -- It's a
way of self commenting a script, where one often uses unfamiliar commands.  Long
options give all the same programming advantages as meaningful function names
(you know, all that 1st year CS stuff :)

Just my 1.5p.
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Andrew Fitzgibbon,
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