2003-02-26 03:10:46 +00:00
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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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