From: Martin Stromberg <eplmst AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se>
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Subject: Re: Patch #3 for dtou.c
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 09:48:24 +0100 (MET)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1001127084605.15394I-100000@is> from "Eli Zaretskii" at Nov 27, 2000 08:46:20 AM
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Eli said:> 
> On Sun, 26 Nov 2000, DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
> > I've been using unix now for 15 years, and I've never had to resort to
> > the "--" trick.
> 
> What do you do if you need to fgrep for a string that begins with a
> dash?
> 
> I agree that "--" is rarely needed, though; the above example is about
> the only case I ever needed it.

It's needed when a program using getopt() launches another program and
you want to send options to the second program. E. g. startx which
launches the X server and you want to give the "-bpp 32" option to the
X server.


Right,

						MartinS