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1.1     ! misho       1: This is the popt command line option parsing library. While it is similiar
        !             2: to getopt(3), it contains a number of enhancements, including:
        !             3: 
        !             4:        1) popt is fully reentrant
        !             5:        2) popt can parse arbitrary argv[] style arrays while 
        !             6:           getopt(2) makes this quite difficult
        !             7:        3) popt allows users to alias command line arguments
        !             8:        4) popt provides convience functions for parsing strings
        !             9:           into argv[] style arrays
        !            10: 
        !            11: popt is used by rpm, the Red Hat install program, and many other Red Hat
        !            12: utilities, all of which provide excellent examples of how to use popt. 
        !            13: Complete documentation on popt is available in popt.ps (included in this
        !            14: tarball), which is excerpted with permission from the book "Linux
        !            15: Application Development" by Michael K. Johnson and Erik Troan (availble
        !            16: from Addison Wesley in May, 1998).
        !            17: 
        !            18: Comments on popt should be addressed to ewt@redhat.com.