Re: Poll: syntax of long options

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From: Loren J. Rittle
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1991 14:22

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In article <ABRAHAM.91Oct29115204@freja.iesd.auc.dk> abraham@iesd.auc.dk (Per Abrahamsen) writes:
>Kyle> I'd guess that this would conflict with the sh notion of +option
>Kyle> meaning to turn off the option.
>
>It conflicts with the fact that valid filenames may start with a `+'.

Valid file names can start with a '-' also.  What's your point?
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