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To: Bill Fumerola <billf@chimesnet.com>
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/ifconfig ifconfig.c 
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Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 13:58:36 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <20000719145541.W51462@jade.chc-chimes.com> Bill Fumerola writes:
: progname -? is _not_ the UNIX way. I did this to a program once and was
: given many reasons why it was bad. they may be archived.

But getopt returns '?' for unknown args, which causes most of our
programs to print the usage.  You don't need or and shouldn't code
that, which is the conversation I think that's archived.  It just
falls out of the way getopt works.

Warner


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