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Subject: Re: getopt.ps
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 13:14:51 -0700
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luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think this is interesting code (and it's great to see people writing PS!). 
> But I'm not sure if it's actually very useful. If you're using ghostscript,
> you can combine the ARGUMENTS form with -D definitions, so you
> don't really need to parse any option style syntax from the ARGUMENTS
> list. Just define those with -D and use ARGUMENTS for strings
> or filenames or whatever.

While that is true, I don't really like -d and -s for your own program's
options; the -d and -s are for setting the options of Ghostscript itself
(such as specifying what file or printer to use for graphical output, and
some other options).

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