an alternative suggestion for "tar" and user/group names

[Paul Fox]

 > >  >     { "no-same-owner",      0,  NULL,   '\203' },
 > >  >     { "no-same-permissions",0,  NULL,   '\213' },
 > >  >     ...
 > >  >     { "exclude",            1,  NULL,   '\n' },
 > >  >     ...
 > >  > 
 > >  > what's happening here?  
 > > 
 > > the bb option parser insists on having a short option to correspond with
 > > very long option.  the values you see there are dummy values, unlikely
 > > to ever be actually typed, which act as placeholders in the struct.
 > > yes, it's really ugly.
 > 
 > Hmm. You say about very old bb_getopt_ulflags before Oct 2005.

6 months.  no _so_ old.  :-)  has it changed?  i vaguely remember you
talking about a change, but i didn't realize it had been committed.
what should tar.c look like now?

paul
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