Re: lynx-dev Command-line options and DOS [patch]

[T.E.Dickey]

> Many UNIX utilities (particularly gnu stuff) use the --option=value 
> syntax, whereas nothing that I'm aware of uses a ":" as a separator 
> for such cmd line args. 

rcs does (but offhand I don't recall any other widely-used programs
that do).

> To avoid a confusing exception to common existing usage/syntax, I'd 
> really prefer to see the ":" alternate ifdef'd for DOS, and not used 
> in UNIX builds. 
>  
> /kim 


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