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diff --git a/devel/popt/DESCR b/devel/popt/DESCR index 5debc0834ee..c24fca3168e 100644 --- a/devel/popt/DESCR +++ b/devel/popt/DESCR @@ -2,14 +2,14 @@ This is the popt command line option parsing library. While it is similar to getopt(3), it contains a number of enhancements, including: 1) popt is fully reentrant - 2) popt can parse arbitrary argv[] style arrays while + 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 convenience functions for parsing 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. +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 (available |