The library I referred to was getopt. It just seems to be trying to be a bit too clever... kind of like the automatic tuning radios in Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I didn't know about the existing oddity in rsh. Thanks for the education.
Tim Conway Unix System Administration Contractor - IBM Global Services desk:3032734776 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hmm. To be fair, rsh has always been an outlier - it's allowed flags to follow the hostname ever since I can remember. And there are other fine examples of tradition like tar and dd which are hardly exemplary. If anything, I'd feel things are slowly getting better. But for interest, which new library do you refer to above? > You will have to write an rsh wrapper. Hmm. That was actually what I did yesterday. It's not the right solution to expect every end user to do that though. -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
