From: sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Subject: RE: @file
3 Mar 1998 02:00:06 -0800
Message-ID: <01BD468E.D3FFF7F0.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@gater.krystalbank.msk.ru>
To: "tromey AT cygnus DOT com" <tromey AT cygnus DOT com>,
        "'Eric Bachalo'"
	 <ebachalo AT cygnus DOT com>
Cc: "cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com" <cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com>

Eric Bachalo wrote:
> 
> >One bad part about this is that some Unix programs expect arguments
> >like "@foo".  For instance, finger.
> >
> >Tom
> 
> Agreed.  To get around the @host problem I suggest we use -@file instead of
> @file.  Comments anyone?  
> 
> A quick grep of man pages shows that it would likely only conflict with
> lout.  zip uses it but in a very similar way.
> 

What about a long option? Something like --indirect=file.

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