README 721 B

12345678910111213141516
  1. This is the popt(3) command line option parsing library. While it is similiar
  2. to getopt(3), it contains a number of enhancements, including:
  3. 1) popt is fully reentrant
  4. 2) popt can parse arbitrary argv[] style arrays while
  5. getopt(3) makes this quite difficult
  6. 3) popt allows users to alias command line arguments
  7. 4) popt provides convience functions for parsing strings
  8. into argv[] style arrays
  9. Complete documentation on popt(3) is available in popt.ps (included in this
  10. tarball), which is excerpted with permission from the book "Linux
  11. Application Development" by Michael K. Johnson and Erik Troan (available
  12. from Addison Wesley in May, 1998).
  13. Comments on popt should be addressed to popt-devel@rpm5.org.