README
1This is the popt(3) command line option parsing library. While it is similiar
2to getopt(3), it contains a number of enhancements, including:
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4 1) popt is fully reentrant
5 2) popt can parse arbitrary argv[] style arrays while
6 getopt(3) makes this quite difficult
7 3) popt allows users to alias command line arguments
8 4) popt provides convience functions for parsing strings
9 into argv[] style arrays
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11Complete documentation on popt(3) is available in popt.ps (included in this
12tarball), which is excerpted with permission from the book "Linux
13Application Development" by Michael K. Johnson and Erik Troan (available
14from Addison Wesley in May, 1998).
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16Comments on popt should be addressed to popt-devel@rpm5.org.
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