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@@ -22879,9 +22879,11 @@ 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