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Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 17:57:06 -0500
From: MALCOLM BOFF <Malcolm_Boff@compuserve.com>
Subject: RE: Can't getopt()
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The standard 'main()' for a C program is :-

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
    main code ...
}

Now argc and argv are correctly declared ...

I also suspect that the format that you specified is not really what
you want since this will treat each letter as a flag (ie -a -b -c etc)

If you want to be able to pick up something like a file name following
a -f flag then follow the letter with a colon (:) and use a switch()
statement
on the result of getopt().

Malcolm G. Boff
Sylmex Ltd.