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+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>.
+
1999-03-18 Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>
* sunrpc/clnt_unix.c: Fix creation of parameters for
diff --git a/manual/getopt.texi b/manual/getopt.texi
index 8e1102f911..f3934d0cfe 100644
--- a/manual/getopt.texi
+++ b/manual/getopt.texi
@@ -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