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Date:      Sat, 12 Aug 1995 19:45:50 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
To:        peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Kernel configuration/compilation tool
Message-ID:  <199508130245.TAA08220@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
In-Reply-To: <199508130015.TAA09678@bonkers.taronga.com> from "Peter da Silva" at Aug 12, 95 07:15:40 pm

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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?

YES!  I do!


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Rod Grimes                                      rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
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