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    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.