Thomas Maier-Komor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've just stumbled across that ksh93 doesn't accept getopts strings for
> long options that are accepted in the old ksh (e.g. 'h(help)').

This is a result from using the Sun variant of getopt(3).

The way it implements long options is not well planned as it is impossible
to have long options without associated short options.

ksh93 is completely based on AT&T code and uses it's own getopt that is 
different from the one in libc.

Jörg

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