Alan Coopersmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Bill Sommerfeld wrote:
> > 2) utilities should only be written (enhanced) to the long options part
> > of the CLIP specification in "logical groups". (i.e., a group of
> > related utilities should be consistent in their use or non-use of long
> > options).
>
> Or in their use of other option syntaxes, like the
> long-options-with-single-dash used by X11 applications (e.g. -display).
> Adding this style to other commands wouldn't make sense, but changing
> twenty years of habits and scripts for these commands would make even
> less sense.
This is what I do with my getargs()/getfiles() implementation since 1982.
However, I also accept --display
Jörg
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