autogen binary package in Ubuntu Bionic i386

 AutoGen is a tool designed for generating program files that contain
 repetitive text with varied substitutions. This is especially valuable if
 there are several blocks of such text that must be kept synchronized.
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 Included with AutoGen is a tool that virtually eliminates the hassle of
 processing options, keeping usage text up to date and so on. This tool
 allows you to specify several program attributes, innumerable options and
 option attributes, then it produces all the code necessary to parse and
 handle the command line and initialization file options.
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 This package contains the development tools. libopts25-dev contains the
 static libraries and header files. libopts25 contains the shared libraries.
 autogen-doc contains the PostScript and HTML documentation.

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