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diff --git a/doc/gawk.texi b/doc/gawk.texi index 446f9c3e..5ce36c5a 100644 --- a/doc/gawk.texi +++ b/doc/gawk.texi @@ -23966,9 +23966,11 @@ As a side point, @command{gawk} actually uses the GNU @code{getopt_long()} function to process both normal and GNU-style long options (@pxref{Options}). +@cindex Minshall, Greg The abstraction provided by @code{getopt()} is very useful and is quite handy in @command{awk} programs as well. Following is an @command{awk} version of @code{getopt()} that accepts both short and long options. +(Support for long options was supplied by Greg Minshall. We thank him.) This function highlights one of the greatest weaknesses in @command{awk}, which is that it is very poor at |