[TUHS] getopt

[Phil Budne]

Aaron wrote:
> Having written the first versions of getopt(3), getopt(1), and associated man pages around 1979
... 
> I wrote getopt, and rewrote many commands to use it because I got
> annoyed at trying to remember which commands required “-x -y -z” vs
> “-xyz”, and which flags required or allowed optional arguments.

For posterity, can you tell us more about where/when/how it happened?
Where were you working, and on what project??

I found an acknowledgement of your work on p9 of the paper that starts at
https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Documentation/AUUGN/AUUGN-V05.3.pdf#page=27
"Proposed Syntax Standard for UNIX* System Commands":

	Acknowledgments

	We are indebted to Jerry Vogel and Aaron Cohen: after
	evaluating the problem, we arrived at asolution very similar
	to the one they championed five years ago.

References for the above proposal:
 Hemenway, K., & Armitage, H. (1984) Proposed Syntax Standard for UNIX System Commands. In Summer USENIX Conference. El Cerito, CA: Usenix Association. 

 Proposed syntax standard for UNIX system commands
 K Hemenway, H Armitage - UNIX/world, 1984