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@@ -1,18 +1,16 @@ -This is the popt command line option parsing library. While it is similiar +This is the popt(3) command line option parsing library. While it is similiar to getopt(3), it contains a number of enhancements, including: 1) popt is fully reentrant 2) popt can parse arbitrary argv[] style arrays while - getopt(2) makes this quite difficult + getopt(3) makes this quite difficult 3) popt allows users to alias command line arguments 4) popt provides convience functions for parsing strings into argv[] style arrays -popt is used by rpm, the Red Hat install program, and many other Red Hat -utilities, all of which provide excellent examples of how to use popt. -Complete documentation on popt is available in popt.ps (included in this +Complete documentation on popt(3) is available in popt.ps (included in this tarball), which is excerpted with permission from the book "Linux -Application Development" by Michael K. Johnson and Erik Troan (availble +Application Development" by Michael K. Johnson and Erik Troan (available from Addison Wesley in May, 1998). -Comments on popt should be addressed to ewt@redhat.com. +Comments on popt should be addressed to popt-devel@rpm5.org. |