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From: Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com>
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To: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
Subject: Re: Kernel configuration/compilation tool
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In article <199508010417.VAA04479@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>,
Rodney W. Grimes <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> wrote:
>getopts helped, but it is just too primative, offers no data type checking,
>causes _tons_ of duplicated code, etc.

"Parseargs" by Eric Allman, and modified by myself and Brad Appleton of
Harris, does an excellent job. It also lets you write commands that use
unix-style options for UNIX systems, dos style options for DOS systems,
amiga style options (which are like DD's) for Amiga systems, and VMS
style options for VMS systems, depending on which version of the library
you link with. It also generates usage messages at three levels of verbosity.

Anyone want to see the code?