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/* Argp example #2 -- a pretty minimal program using argp */
+/* This program doesn't use any options or arguments, but uses
+ argp to be compliant with the GNU standard command line
+ format.
+
+ In addition to making sure no arguments are given, and
+ implementing a --help option, this example will have a
+ --version option, and will put the given documentation string
+ and bug address in the --help output, as per GNU standards.
+
+ The variable ARGP contains the argument parser specification;
+ adding fields to this structure is the way most parameters are
+ passed to argp_parse (the first three fields are usually used,
+ but not in this small program). There are also two global
+ variables that argp knows about defined here,
+ ARGP_PROGRAM_VERSION and ARGP_PROGRAM_BUG_ADDRESS (they are
+ global variables becuase they will almost always be constant
+ for a given program, even if it uses different argument
+ parsers for various tasks). */
+
#include <argp.h>
const char *argp_program_version =
"argp-ex2 1.0";
const char *argp_program_bug_address =
- "<bug-gnu-utils@@prep.ai.mit.edu>";
+ "<bug-gnu-utils@@gnu.org>";
/* Program documentation. */
static char doc[] =