tar problems

[Les Mikesell]

On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 11:34, Mike McCarty wrote:
> >
> Many of the FSF programs use a common GETOPT routine which does
> all the "-" and "--" parsing common stuff. This routine skips
> around in the argument list looking for stuff, and so even
> when programs don't document the ability to intermix arguments
> and options, they often support it anyway. It's not that the
> author decided to support that, it's just that a routine already
> exists which does it.

Probably everything except tar uses that as the only way to
parse options.  Gnutar continues to accept the single letter
options without the leading '-' so it has to do its own thing
too and imposes some extra constraints.  I guess using the documented
syntax is one of those...

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  Les Mikesell
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