Re: [Exim] Exim's sendmail (in)compatibility: Commandline op…

Quoth Marc MERLIN on Mon, Feb 18, 2002:
> I think it's just a matter of what command line parsing code/library you
> use.
> For many unix tools, if foo -a -b works, than foo -ab works too

That's right, but not with Sendmail. In Sendmail, -bd is quite
different from -b -d (which is not legal).

> that's also why multiple letter options are usually prepended with --
> so that you can have foo -a -b --ab equivalent to foo -ab --ab

Sorry, that's not UNIX, that's GNU.

Vadik.