Re: Who wants long options anyway? (Re: Poll: syntax of long options)

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From: haertel
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1991 16:36

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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,
because it can automatically produce a usage message that lists all the
possible options together with (by virtue of the long names) some indication
of what they do.

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...

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