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>         I'd like not to have Apple's tcpdump not have to differ from the 
> standard in that regard.
>
> Unfortunately, there aren't many options left; we really need to switch to 
> getopt_long() (and provide our own version for platforms that don't support 
> it - the main one is Windows for WinDump, and we have to supply our own 
> getopt() for it already; most UN*Xes support it by now).
>

An immediate (and quite common) solution could be managing this particular knob 
by means of a long option like --setdir with no single-letter synonym. Once 
someone resolves the getopt_long() problem it will be possible to refine things 
further.

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-- 
    Denis Ovsienko
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