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RE: PATCH: 3.1.6-pws-3: sessions for zftp

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From: "Andrej Borsenkow" <Andrej.Borsenkow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Peter Stephenson" <pws@xxxxxx>, "Zsh hackers list" <zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: PATCH: 3.1.6-pws-3: sessions for zftp
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 18:03:11 +0400
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>
> I made the functions use getopts for brevity, but there's still a problem
> even after the last patch: something like `zfget -G - ...' isn't recognised
> as terminating option processing, for which you need `zfget -G -- ...'; the
> - is treated as an argument.  I left this because it seems ksh behaves the
> same way.
>

That is correct. The option terminator is `--'. Single `-' never was officially
approved by current Unix standards (even when used in this way). I'd like, that
our completion functions used `--' instead of `-' consistently as well.

/andrej

References:
- PATCH: 3.1.6-pws-3: sessions for zftp
  - From: Peter Stephenson

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