From: Garrett Mitchener <wgm2@duke.edu>
  To  : 
  Date: 04 Mar 1999 20:25:14 -0500

Re: getopt()

Michael Abernethy <mna@duke.edu> writes:

> I'm working on goof right now and have tried to implement the getopt() 
> function.
> It works fine when I type:     goof -r filename
> It works fine when I type:     goof wordToFind
> 
> It doesn't work when I type:   goof wordToFind -r filename
> 
> Has anyone run across this problem, and if you have, how did you manage 
> to fix it?
> getopt() seems to work only when there's a -command as argv[1], and not at 
> any other position
> Thanks alot,
> 
> Mike Abernethy
> www.duke.edu/~mna
> IBM Club Cyberblue - www.cybrblu.ibm.com

When getopt gets to something it doesn't recognize as an option, it
stops...

	-- Garrett :-)