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To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
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Subject: Re: getopt(1) man page woodoo 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 22 Oct 96 11:24:53 PDT."
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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 14:36:16 PDT
From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
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I should have looked at the man page before I replied; the rest of the
page is in andoc form which is why .B doesn't work.  Try

.Fl -

for the --'s, and just

.Fl

for the -.

  Bill