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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.