## ALP Programming Guide and Reference

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### Group Options

Command line options fall into this category if the settings they control can be applied to a list of multiple files within a given scope without causing ambiguities. Group options are useful for such operations as:

Requesting a listing file be generated for all files within the group
Specifying the target directory for all generated object files
Controlling the display of warning and informational messages for all files within the group

Within a given scope (see Command Line Scope Operator ()) the command line parser assigns the group classification to each option until the first source file name is encountered; group option settings are applied to all file names that follow within a given scope. After encountering the first source file name, options are assigned the file classification.