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