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+/* HelpPrinter -- help message printer
+   Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation
+
+This file is part of GNU Classpath.
+
+GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+any later version.
+
+GNU Classpath is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+General Public License for more details.
+
+You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+along with GNU Classpath; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to the
+Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
+02110-1301 USA.
+
+Linking this library statically or dynamically with other modules is
+making a combined work based on this library.  Thus, the terms and
+conditions of the GNU General Public License cover the whole
+combination.
+
+As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you
+permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an
+executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent
+modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under
+terms of your choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked
+independent module, the terms and conditions of the license of that
+module.  An independent module is a module which is not derived from
+or based on this library.  If you modify this library, you may extend
+this exception to your version of the library, but you are not
+obligated to do so.  If you do not wish to do so, delete this
+exception statement from your version. */
+
+package gnu.classpath.tools;
+
+import java.io.BufferedReader;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.io.InputStreamReader;
+
+/**
+ * The shared class to print the help message and exit, when applicable. 
+ * Support the --help key.
+ * 
+ * @author Audrius Meskauskas (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org)
+ */
+public class HelpPrinter
+{
+  /**
+   * Check for the --help, -help and -? keys. If one is found, print help and
+   * exit the program.
+   * 
+   * @param args the program arguments.
+   * @param helpResourcePath the path to the help resource, related to the
+   *          HelpPrinter class.
+   */
+  public static void checkHelpKey(String[] args, String helpResourcePath)
+  {
+    for (int i = 0; i < args.length; i++)
+      {
+        String a = args[i];
+        if (a.equals("-?") || a.equalsIgnoreCase("-help")
+            || a.equalsIgnoreCase("--help"))
+          printHelpAndExit(helpResourcePath);
+      }
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Prints the help message and terminates.
+   * 
+   * @param helpResourcePath the path to the help resource, related to the
+   *          HelpPrinter class.
+   */
+  public static void printHelpAndExit(String helpResourcePath)
+  {
+    InputStream in = HelpPrinter.class.getResourceAsStream(helpResourcePath);
+    BufferedReader r = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in));
+
+    try
+      {
+        String s;
+        while ((s = r.readLine()) != null)
+          {
+            System.out.println(s);
+          }
+        r.close();
+      }
+    catch (IOException e)
+      {
+        System.err.print("Resource loading is broken:");
+        e.printStackTrace();
+      }
+    System.exit(0);
+  }
+}