1This is the popt command line option parsing library. While it is similiar 2to getopt(3), it contains a number of enhancements, including: 3 4 1) popt is fully reentrant 5 2) popt can parse arbitrary argv[] style arrays while 6 getopt(2) makes this quite difficult 7 3) popt allows users to alias command line arguments 8 4) popt provides convience functions for parsting strings 9 into argv[] style arrays 10 11popt is used by rpm, the Red Hat install program, and many other Red Hat 12utilities, all of which provide excellent examples of how to use popt. 13Complete documentation on popt is available in popt.ps (included in this 14tarball), which is excerpted with permission from the book "Linux 15Application Development" by Michael K. Johnson and Erik Troan (availble 16from Addison Wesley in May, 1998). 17 18Comments on popt should be addressed to ewt@redhat.com. 19