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From: Per Lundberg <plundis@chaosdev.org>
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On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Alex Zepeda wrote:

> It's quite easily argued that depending on a *NON STANDARD* getopt routine
> is a bug.

I know it isn't standard. But it works well, and is used by a lot of
programs. Perhaps it should have been put in another library than libc,
though. Actually, I'd better suggest this to the GNU people right ahead.



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