command line options

[Ed Gould]

Doug Gwyn:
>You miss the point; -? already has the desired property; it does not
>have to be explicitly added to every application.  I'm sorry if you
>choose to use a shell that makes this too difficult to type.

Actually, I think that you miss the point.  What shell do you use that
doesn't expand -? when it matches a file name?  The point is that this
use in getopt() abuses an existing construct.

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