Hi!

Mutt made me believe that Simon J. Gerraty wrote:
> As to one of your earlier comments about "-" in optstr, its actually 
> quite handy - after a simple bug fix to getopt(3) so that --foo is 
> not interpreted as --. The one can have -: in optstr and get a simple hook
> to pickup --long_options of course one could argue that if you want that
> you should use gnu getopt, but the munging described above suggests that 
> gnu getopt is more trouble that its worth.

I'm not completely sure I understand this paragraph, but here goes:
If you want to parse long-options, just use getopt_long, which has
been in libc for some months now.

Bye,
 Thomas

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