Subject: Re: deprecating long options in tar and cpio (was: CVS commit: src)
To: Andrew Brown <twofsonet@graffiti.com>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 01/26/1999 15:40:32
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Andrew Brown wrote:

: >Exactly how does having longopts for compatibility (and the ability to have
: >more than 52 options) *hurt* you?
: 
: 52?!  gzip -9!  and so on...

Tar already uses -[0-9].  As well as almost every letter in the alphabet.  
:>

So make it `62'.

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