From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jul 1 09:04:03 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA23479 for current-outgoing; Sat, 1 Jul 1995 09:04:03 -0700 Received: from grunt.grondar.za (grunt.grondar.za [196.7.18.129]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA23455 for ; Sat, 1 Jul 1995 09:03:48 -0700 Received: from grumble.grondar.za (grumble.grondar.za [196.7.18.130]) by grunt.grondar.za (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id SAA11079; Sat, 1 Jul 1995 18:02:25 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumble.grondar.za (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id SAA21479; Sat, 1 Jul 1995 18:02:23 +0200 Message-Id: <199507011602.SAA21479@grumble.grondar.za> X-Authentication-Warning: grumble.grondar.za: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users), joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Subject: Re: getopt(1) Date: Sat, 01 Jul 1995 18:02:23 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I'm missing the getopt(1) program to get some old shell scripts > working without converting them to use the modern replacement > getopts(1). I've got an older implementation (by me, back from 386BSD > 0.1 days) lying around, do people object against importing it? Isn't that a bit of a step backward? Importing old code to get old scripts working? Surely progress would be better served by upgrading the scripts. My 0.02R (1US$=3.6ZAR, so 0.02ZAR very little) M -- Mark Murray 46 Harvey Rd, Claremont, Cape Town 7700, South Africa +27 21 61-3768 GMT+0200