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From: bill@cool
Subject: Re: GETARG in Ada?
Date: 1999/02/27
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Date: 1999-02-27T00:00:00+00:00
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it should be possible to call the Unix getopt() function from Ada. why
not do this? getopt is designed to break command line arguments
easily. 

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GETOPT(1)                                               GETOPT(1)

NAME
       getopt - parse command options (enhanced)

SYNOPSIS
       getopt optstring parameters

       getopt [options] [--] optstring parameters

       getopt [options] -o|--options optstring [options] [--] 
              parameters

DESCRIPTION
 getopt is used to break up (parse) options in command lines for 
easy parsing by shell pro-cedures, and to check for legal options.  
It uses the GNU getopt(3) routines to do this.