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Update trunk to 3.2.0pre3
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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 parsing 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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