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Date:      Tue, 22 Oct 1996 20:24:53 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Cc:        kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies)
Subject:   Re: getopt(1) man page woodoo
Message-ID:  <199610221824.UAA18381@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199610221641.RAA22495@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from Christoph Kukulies at "Oct 22, 96 05:41:54 pm"

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As Christoph Kukulies wrote:

> See the missing -- and - ?
> 
> But they are in 
> The special option
> .B \-\-
> is used to delimit the end of the options.
> .Nm Getopt
> will place
> .B \-\-
> in the arguments at the end of the options,
> or recognize it if used explicitly.
> The shell arguments
> (\fB$1 $2\fR ...) are reset so that each option is
> preceded by a
> .B \-
> and in its own shell argument;
> 
> What's going on here?

Somebody didn't know troff.  Make this \&-, and it will work.

Better yet, -mdoc'ify it, and use

The special option
.Fl \&-

instead.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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