Bourne shell - $* and quoting

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <632 at mips.UUCP> dce at mips.UUCP (David Elliott) writes:
[Nice explanation of the uses of $* "$*" and "$@".]

As the poster of the $* version of the "not" function, I applaud
attempts to improve it.  I used $* because I have gotten tired of
trying to get the shell to do the right thing in these contexts.
The "getopt" utility never could be made to work entirely correctly,
which helps explain why "getopts" is buil into the SVR3 shell.