# bobcat

**Repository Path**: mirrors_fbb-git/bobcat

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: bobcat
- **Description**: No description available
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: AGPL-3.0
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2023-11-08
- **Last Updated**: 2025-06-03

## Categories & Tags

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## README

Bobcat is an acronym of `Brokken's Own Base Classes And Templates'. It is a
shared library implementing C++ classes that are frequently used in software
developed by Frank Brokken. All of Frank's C++ programs hosted at GitLab
depend on `bobcat'.

The Bobcat library contains a variety of C++ classes and templates, some of
them based on well-known Design Patterns. The library offers classes
handling, e.g.,
    Child Processes, Forks, Pipes and Redirection
    Command-to-Function associations
    Command-line arguments and history handling
    Command-line editing using streams
    Configuration Files
    Decryption and Encryption
    Extended String Operations
    Hash-tables
    Integers of unlimited size
    File-descriptor based streams (e.g. handle sockets using streams)
    Mail headers and mail filtering (milters)
    Message Digests
    Pattern matching
    Processes, Signals, Threads
    Shared Memory
    Single (Direct) Key Input
    Syslog- and other kinds of messages
    Temporary files
    Universal Type Conversions (Templates)

To create the library from its sources, either descend into the bobcat
directory, or unpack a created archive, cd into its top-level directory 
and follow the instructions provided in the INSTALL file found there.

Alternatively, binary ready-to-install versions of the Bobcat library are
available in verious Linux distributions, in particular Debian. See, e.g.,

https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=bobcat&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all