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diff --git a/usr.bin/getopt/README b/usr.bin/getopt/README deleted file mode 100644 index 55e6998..0000000 --- a/usr.bin/getopt/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,57 +0,0 @@ -/***** unido:mod.std.unix / ut-sally!jsq / 8:54 pm Jul 4, 1985*/ -From: John Quarterman (moderator) <ut-sally!std-unix> - -Topic: yet more on getopt (command line arguments) - -Two more messages, the first a followup to a previous posting, and -the second public domain sources and man pages for getopt(3) and getopt(1). - -mod - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - -From: ihnp4!utzoo!henry -Date: 3 Jul 85 18:34:41 CDT (Wed) -To: ihnp4!ut-sally!std-unix -Subject: Re: command line arguments - -> > A group of bundled options may end with an option that has an argument. -> -> This creates confusion in using C-Kermit when you want to send an image -> file. For example: -> -> send -is filename < --- works fine -> send -si filename < --- bombs the program - -The AT&T syntax standard (which getopt does not completely enforce) -actually forbids both of these usages. Options with arguments are not -allowed to be bundled, and they must be separated from their arguments -by a space. - -> I would *much* prefer to bundle the flags, then -> have those with arguments pick them up in the same order as the flags are -> listed. - -The few existing commands that use such a convention, notably tar(1), are -(in my experience) the worse for it. It's seriously error-prone. I think -the AT&T people did the right thing. - ------------------------------- - -Date: Tue, 2 Jul 85 13:07:09 edt -From: ihnp4!utcs!ian (Ian F. Darwin) -To: ihnp4!ut-sally!jsq@tzec.UTEXAS.ARPA -Subject: here is getopt - -Here is the source for getopt(3), the function that should be in -everybody's C program, and getopt(1), a program that uses it to -make shell programs comprehensible and consistent. There are man -pages for both. Please send these on to the mod. group. Thanks. - -[ I have hacked the following shell script slightly so that -it doesn't extract directly into system source directories, -rather into the current directory. It should be assumed that -this code comes with no warranty from me, Ian Darwin, or anyone -else as to whether it accurately represents getopt as distributed -with System V, or any command line standard, or that it works -at all, or that it will cause no damage when extracted or used. -mod] - diff --git a/usr.bin/getopt/getopt.c b/usr.bin/getopt/getopt.c index 3363760..d1671a7 100644 --- a/usr.bin/getopt/getopt.c +++ b/usr.bin/getopt/getopt.c @@ -1,6 +1,11 @@ #include <sys/cdefs.h> __FBSDID("$FreeBSD$"); +/* + * This material, written by Henry Spencer, was released by him + * into the public domain and is thus not subject to any copyright. + */ + #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <unistd.h> |