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ad numeric options
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should be lower case, 2--9 characters long and using only characters from
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the portable character set. Arguments without options should be possible to group
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after '--', etc.
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\item Using numbers of options is old fashioned; reportedly SUSv3 mentions that.
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\item Using numbers for options (ala \texttt{-4} and \texttt{-6} for some
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\texttt{ping} implementations) is old fashioned;
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reportedly SUSv3 mentions that.
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\item Watch out for GNU command line utilities and its strange permutations
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of options and arguments.
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\item The \texttt{-W} option should be reserved for vendor options, i.e. for

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