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Popt - Library for parsing command line options

The popt library exists essentially for parsing command line options. Some specific advantages of popt are no global variables (allowing multiple passes in parsing argv), parsing an arbitrary array of argv-style elements (allowing parsing of command-line-strings from any source), a standard method of option aliasing, ability to exec external option filters, and automatic generation of help and usage messages.

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Web pageftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist/rpm-4.1.x/
Source tarballftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist/rpm-4.1.x/popt-1.7.tar.gz
Version 1.7 (stable) released on 2002-09-20
Licensed under an X11-style license.
This is not a GNU package.

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