On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 10:51:42AM -0400, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> [jbj@wellfleet popt]$ /bin/echo --foo --bar
> --bar
> [jbj@wellfleet popt]$ /bin/echo -- --foo --bar
> --foo --bar

OK, Let's hope that your echo will not drop anything if the first arg
passed to it is a non-option (such as "args:").  If so, the attached
patch should work for everyone (it does for me).

..wayne..