Does anybody happen to have some utility for command line parsing,
i.e. option and argument processing?  I'm aware of Dan Bron's
jcommandline.ijs.

I also dimly remember that Joey Tuttle had sent his option parsing
utility to me years ago but unfortunately I'm unable to unearth that
email/script.

Ideally I'd have something honouring the POSIX option/argument conventions
for command line utilities:

http://www.gaertner.de/~neitzel/susv3/basedefs/xbd_chap12.html#tag_12

I'm not a huge fan of the getopts(1)/getopt(3) API.  As far as I can
remember it, Joey's utility was quite nice:  table driven and resulting
in a keyed option list.  (But I might be wrong - it has been ages.)

Any traces of that anywhere?  Any alternatives?

                                                        Martin Neitzel
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