command line options

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <192 at sdeggo.UUCP> dave at sdeggo.UUCP (David L. Smith) writes:
> I don't see anything grandiose about adding "-HELP" into getopt and having
> that return a '?' to the calling program.  Do you?  This would only require
> recompilation to work.

It won't work at all!  -HELP already has a standard meaning and getopt()
supports it: this is equivalent to -H -E -L -P.

> The "-?" would not be useful with those programs like sed and grep which 
> process regular expressions.  

Sure it would, so long as they follow the command syntax standard.
In fact it ALREADY is useful with such commands.