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  17                                 <a href="#what">What's that?</a>
  18                                 <a href="#features">Features</a>
  19                                 <a href="#license">License</a>
  20                                 <a href="#authors">Authors</a>
  21                                 <a href="#download">Download</a>
  22                                 <a href="#bugs">Reporting bugs</a>
  23                                 <a href="#addlib">Extra libraries</a>
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  34                         <h1>LibUCW</h1>
  35                         <div class="section" id="what"><h2>What's that?</h2>
  36                                 <p>
  37                                         The UCW library aims to provide a set general purpose tools for programming
  38                                         in the C language. In other words, to make writing of complex and very efficient
  39                                         programs in plain C a pleasure.
  40                                 <p>
  41                                         It originated as a part of the <a href="/holmes/">Sherlock Holmes</a> search engine,
  42                                         but it is now developed separately.
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  44                         <div class="section" id="features"><h2>Features</h2>
  45                                 <ul>
  46                                         <li>Fast buffered IO
  47                                         <li>Memory pools
  48                                         <li>Internal and external sorting routines
  49                                         <li>Generic data structures (e.g., heaps, search trees, growing buffers)
  50                                         <li>Very efficient memory allocators
  51                                         <li>Event loop (watching over file descriptors, sub-processes, timers, and signals)
  52                                         <li>Configuration system
  53                                         <li>Modular system for <tt>configure</tt> scripts
  54                                         <li>Build system
  55                                         <li>Documentation system
  56                                         <li>&hellip; and many more
  57                                 </ul>
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  59                         <div class="section" id="license"><h2>License</h2>
  60                                 <p>
  61                                         The library can be distributed and used under the terms of <a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html">GNU Lesser Public License</a> (LGPL),
  62                                         either version 2 or any later version. Several modules are in public domain.
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  64                         <div class="section" id="authors"><h2>Authors</h2>
  65                                 <p>
  66                                         Most parts of the library were written by
  67                                         <a href='http://mj.ucw.cz'>Martin Mareš</a>,
  68                                         <a href="http://www.ucw.cz/~robert/index-en.html">Robert Špalek</a>,
  69                                         Pavel Charvát,
  70                                         and <a href="http://vorner.ucw.cz/en/">Michal Vaner</a>.
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  72                         <div class="section" id="download"><h2>Download</h2>
  73                                 <p>
  74                                         The latest release of LibUCW is version 5.0 (see <a href='doc/relnotes.html'>release notes</a> and <a href='doc/'>online documentation</a>).
  75                                 <p>
  76                                         It can be downloaded via <a href="download/">HTTP</a> or <a href="ftp://ftp.ucw.cz/pub/libucw/">FTP</a>.
  77                                 <p>
  78                                         The current development version can be checked out from our Git repository at <a href='git://git.ucw.cz/libucw.git'><code>git://git.ucw.cz/libucw.git</code></a>,
  79                                         or you can examine the repository through <a href='http://www.ucw.cz/gitweb?p=libucw.git;a=summary'>gitweb</a>.
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  81                         <div class="section" id="bugs"><h2>Reporting bugs</h2>
  82                                 <p>
  83                                         All bug reports, ideas for new features and other wishes are welcome at <a href="mailto:libucw-devel@ucw.cz">libucw-devel@ucw.cz</a>. Patches are welcome even more ;-)
  84                                 <p>
  85                                         If you use the library to your pleasure, the authors will be glad to hear that at the same address.
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  87                         <div class="section" id="addlib"><h2>Extra libraries</h2>
  88                                 <p>
  89                                         The package also contains several other libraries from the Sherlock Holmes project, which you might find useful.
  90                                         So far, they are completely optional and not much documented.
  91                                 <ul>
  92                                         <li><strong>libucw-charset</strong> &ndash; manipulation of character sets and UniCode categories
  93                                         <li><strong>libucw-images</strong> &ndash; manipulation of images
  94                                         <li><strong>libucw-xml</strong> &ndash; a lightning fast and flexible XML parser
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