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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!news.cc.nctu.edu.tw!spring.edu.tw!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: dummy question Date: 15 Oct 1996 22:02:16 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 16 Message-ID: <5411l8$dr9@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <53mfdu$1iv@wa4phy.async.com> <53oncv$fi5@newshost.lanl.gov> <53rfcg$a7@anorak.coverform.lan> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers) wrote: > In FreeBSD (and BSD in generial I believe), '-' *may* be treated as a > valid flag if the program wishes. If the program doesn't specifically > mention it, it behaves like "--". If i'm not very mistaken, Posix mandates that a single dash should be handled in lieu of a file argument for stdin or stdout. The double dash is the regular end of option processing. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)