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authorAndreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>1999-03-19 02:17:38 +0000
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1999-03-16 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de> cvs/libc-as-990319
* manual/getopt.texi (Using Getopt): Explain "::" in option 
string.  Reported by Yuri Niyazov <yuricake@geocities.com>.
1999-03-16  Andreas Jaeger  <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>

	* manual/getopt.texi (Using Getopt): Explain "::" in option
	string.  Reported by Yuri Niyazov <yuricake@geocities.com>.
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@@ -68,7 +68,8 @@ Normally these values come directly from the arguments received by
 The @var{options} argument is a string that specifies the option
 characters that are valid for this program.  An option character in this
 string can be followed by a colon (@samp{:}) to indicate that it takes a
-required argument.
+required argument.  If an option character is followed by two colons
+(@samp{::}), its argument is optional; this is a GNU extension.
 
 If the @var{options} argument string begins with a hyphen (@samp{-}), this
 is treated specially.  It permits arguments that are not options to be