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Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 08:08:24 -0500 (CDT)
From: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>
To: Per Lundberg <plundis@chaosdev.org>
Cc: Alex Zepeda <garbanzo@hooked.net>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: glibc
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On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Per Lundberg wrote:

# 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.

How about gnugetopt?  FreeBSD already has a port, devel/libgnugetopt,
that does this. :)

-steve



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