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Date:	Wed, 29 May 2002 15:42:39 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)
From:	Michael A Chase <mchase AT ix DOT netcom DOT com>
Subject:	Re: trivial mkpasswd defect
To:	Bernard A Badger <bab AT vx DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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On Wed, 29 May 2002 15:33:19 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) Michael A Chase <mchase AT ix DOT netcom DOT com> wrote:

> I don't see anything there that says that POSIX endorses '-?' for
> displaying the usage message.  It just shows how to handle invalid option
> characters.  If getopt sees an invalid character after '-' it returns '?' and puts the
> invalid character ("?" in your example) in optopt.  In that example, I'd
> expect to see
. . .

I should have been explicit about one item.  Asking for help shouldn't be
an error.

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