Bringing up AT&T ditroff on Berkele

[r...@mirror.uucp]

There are three public-domain implementations of getopt floating
around the net: one by Keith Bostic, one AT&T released into the
public domain, and one by Henry Spencer. The first two are
available from your nearest mod.sources archive.
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[Henry Spencer]

> There are three public-domain implementations of getopt floating
> around the net: one by Keith Bostic, one AT&T released into the
> public domain, and one by Henry Spencer. The first two are
> available from your nearest mod.sources archive.

Speaking as the author of the third (which isn't in mod.sources because
mod.sources didn't exist at the time), I would recommend the AT&T one.
Not for any deep ideological reasons, but because it is the one that is
guaranteed to get all the quirky details "right" (by the standards of
other AT&T software). If for some reason the AT&T one isn't acceptable,
Keith's is more recent than mine and more compatible with some features
of the AT&T getopt that weren't documented when I did mine.
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Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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