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intl Create. 1999-09-29 21:22:24 +00:00
po Sanity (make dist). 1999-12-22 21:31:39 +00:00
.cvsignore Preliminary support for doxygen generated API doco. 2000-01-19 20:54:53 +00:00
.lclintrc lclint annotations. 1999-10-21 18:48:00 +00:00
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COPYING added proper licensing info 1998-10-16 19:05:12 +00:00
Doxyfile.in Preliminary support for doxygen generated API doco. 2000-01-19 20:54:53 +00:00
Makefile.am Makefile.am: Distribute test-poptrc, don't try to wildcard .po files. 2000-02-11 04:44:14 +00:00
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acconfig.h Preliminary support for doxygen generated API doco. 2000-01-19 20:54:53 +00:00
autogen.sh Add intl so popt no longer requires gettext. 1999-09-29 21:12:45 +00:00
configure.in Preliminary support for doxygen generated API doco. 2000-01-19 20:54:53 +00:00
findme.c Add !#:+ token parsing to retrieve (and delete) next argument from list. 1999-10-25 18:22:19 +00:00
findme.h popt: heavy dose of const. 1999-07-27 22:05:43 +00:00
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missing add required files to popt. 1998-10-08 14:23:53 +00:00
mkinstalldirs add required files to popt. 1998-10-08 14:23:53 +00:00
popt.3 use compressed filenames on install side. 1999-10-27 23:18:10 +00:00
popt.c From: Dick Porter <dick@acm.org> -- 1999-11-18 17:10:15 +00:00
popt.h From: Dick Porter <dick@acm.org> -- 1999-11-18 17:10:15 +00:00
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popt.spec Include shlib files. 2000-02-17 03:32:20 +00:00
poptconfig.c check for memory leaks (almost all leaks are plugged). 1999-10-29 16:06:01 +00:00
popthelp.c Add !#:+ token parsing to retrieve (and delete) next argument from list. 1999-10-25 18:22:19 +00:00
poptint.h From: Dick Porter <dick@acm.org> -- 1999-11-18 17:10:15 +00:00
poptparse.c duplicate popt routine so that librpm.so needs not libpopt.so. 1999-12-22 21:30:28 +00:00
system.h Add !#:+ token parsing to retrieve (and delete) next argument from list. 1999-10-25 18:22:19 +00:00
test-poptrc Add !#:+ token parsing to retrieve (and delete) next argument from list. 1999-10-25 18:22:19 +00:00
test1.c use compressed filenames on install side. 1999-10-27 23:18:10 +00:00
test2.c ANSIfcation. 2000-02-23 17:20:20 +00:00
testit.sh Makefile.am: Distribute test-poptrc, don't try to wildcard .po files. 2000-02-11 04:44:14 +00:00

README

This is the popt 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
	3) popt allows users to alias command line arguments
	4) popt provides convience functions for parsting 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
tarball), which is excerpted with permission from the book "Linux
Application Development" by Michael K. Johnson and Erik Troan (availble
from Addison Wesley in May, 1998).

Comments on popt should be addressed to ewt@redhat.com.