parseargs vs. getopt

[Chip Salzenberg]

From:  chip at tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg)

According to darcy at druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain):
>[Getarg] support[s] extra functionality which can be used if the user
>is aware of it.  For one thing, options and arguments (files) can be
>mixed instead of requiring all options to precede the files.

Consider:

	rm ./-a -b -c -d -e -f

With getopt, all five arguments are filenames.  With getarg, the first
argument is a filename and the rest are options.  This is a feature?
No thanks.

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Chip Salzenberg at ComDev/TCT     <chip at tct.uucp>, <uunet!ateng!tct!chip>

Volume-Number: Volume 20, Number 53