A convention for -file
Moderator, John Quarterman
std-unix at ut-sally.UUCP
Tue Oct 28 07:05:29 AEST 1986
From: guy at sun.com (Guy Harris)
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 86 12:44:39 PST
> There's a real easy fix to the current random collection of special
> flags that handle filenames beginning with a dash:...
There's another fix, already implemented by all the versions of "getopt"
running around - an argument of the form "--" means no other arguments are
to be interpreted as flags, regardless of their form. Since this one has
already been implemented by many commands, it is preferable.
Volume-Number: Volume 7, Number 95
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