name=value or -n value?

[Dave Brownell]

System V has a nice way of providing a standard:  they have a library
routine getopt(3) for use in C programming and a shell script version
getopt(1) for Bourne shell/ Korn shell programming.  It standardizes
what most of us would agree is the current UNIX standard, with the
possible exception of forcing flag arguments before file arguments
(i.e., no mixing).  I'ue used getopt(3) and liked it.  I'd like to
see it on Berkeley systems.


	Dave Brownell
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