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The Free Software Foundation (also known as the FSF), invented user friendly long format option arguments, and defined the “+>” character for interpretation that a long format follows. This interpretation is generally followed in the UNIX community. There are two files which will assist you in programming GNO/ME utilities with both short and long format options, <getopt.h> for short options, and <getopt1.h> for long options.