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