On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Tim Mooney wrote:
It's actually specified by the XCU portion of the Single Unix
Specification (SUS). I'm not sure when it was mandated, but it's
definitely part of SUSv3 (UNIX98). Any command that takes command line
arguments and is SUS-compliant is required to take `--' to mean "end of
option arguments, hereafter are non-option arguments".
Thank you, and everybody else who has pointed this out. I appreciate the
information, and as a consequence have adopted the "--" choice. It'll be
in the next imap-2005 development snapshot.
Speaking of imap-2005; this is a sneak peak at the new code which supports
UIDPLUS. I do not consider this code to be "ready for prime time", but
after a few months of testing it's ready for other people on an
experimental basis. There are some known issues in imap-2005; please read
the BEWARE-READ-ME-FIRST file for more details. The download is at:
ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/mail/imap-2005.DEV.tar.Z
-- Mark --
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