Re: Poll: syntax of long options

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From: david carlton
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1991 14:58

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In article <9110220422.AA04988@mole.gnu.ai.mit.edu>, rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Richard Stallman) writes:

> We have been implementing long-named options in GNU utilities
> with `+' as the delimiter.  For example,

>    diff +context=2 +new-file +ignore-case foo bar

> It turns out this conflicts with the POSIX utility syntax spec.
> The POSIX committee refuses to change the spec.

Would you mind actually telling us what the POSIX spec is?

> The GNU project has already declared its independence from POSIX and
> we don't have to fit the spec.

Sigh...  Standards are there for a reason, really they are.

david carlton
carlton@husc.harvard.edu

        One nuclear family can ruin your whole life.

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