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diff --git a/source4/lib/popt/README b/source4/lib/popt/README deleted file mode 100644 index 0b5205bfdd..0000000000 --- a/source4/lib/popt/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,18 +0,0 @@ -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 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. -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. |