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From: Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Interplatform (interprocess, interlanguage) communication
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:46:45 +0000 (UTC)
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On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:16:03 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

> 
> Doesn't getopt exist in some GNU lib that you can get for all platforms?
> 
Pass. I know it was missing from Borland C on DOS and Windows and wasn't 
published for OS-9. I ended up extending a PD version that was originally 
published in the '68 MicroJournal for OS-9 and porting it to the other 
two platforms. 

I had a good (to me) reason for doing that. At the time I was more 
familiar with OS-9 than Windows or Unix (Linux didn't exist at the time) 
and I had got used to the OS-9 command line parser's ability to handle a 
mix of options and arguments in any order rather than the straitjacket of 
Unix's rigid options before arguments rule. My extension basically just 
added the -x=value notation (also used by OS-9) to the standard Unix -
xvalue and -x value notation. I've since rewritten it for Java, adding 
long option names (--xxxx and --xxxx=val) - something I've not gotten 
round to adding to the C version.


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