ARGV parsing -- The Recommended way

[Hallett German]

This is my first and probably last note for this group. My question 
is concerning argv manipulation. There appears to be 2 general ways to 
do this:
    1. Pointer manipulation and use a switch on what appears after the
       -. An example appears on K&R 2 page 117.

    2. Use strcmp and compare -F with argv[1].
    And use other functions like getopt.

My questions are: 1. Which do most people use and why?
                  2. Is there a good reference just on this subject?

I am sorry if this is a basic question but I haven't seen an answer
to it the three months I've been reading this generally insightful
group.

Hal German
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