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  17                                 <a href="#what">What's that?</a>
  18                                 <a href="#features">Features</a>
  19                                 <a href="#addlib">Additional libraries</a>
  20                                 <a href="#license">License</a>
  21                                 <a href="#authors">Authors</a>
  22                                 <a href="#download">Download</a>
  23                                 <a href="#docs">Documentation</a>
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  39                         <h1>LibUCW</h1>
  40                         <div class="section" id="what"><h2>What's that?</h2>
  41                                 <p>
  42                                         <tt>LibUCW</tt> is a general-purpose C library providing both implementation of common algorithms (like sorting, heaps),
  43                                         support for performance computing (fast buffered IO) and some generic data structures.
  44                                         In short, it is a library of things the authors consider useful in most of programs written in C.
  45                                 <p>
  46                                         As a bonus, there is a build system you can use in your program, documentation system and few perl modules.
  47                                 <p>
  48                                         It is developed as part of the <a href="/holmes/">Sherlock Holmes</a> search engine.
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  50                         <div class="section" id="features"><h2>Features</h2>
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  52                                         <li>Fast buffered IO
  53                                         <li>Memory pools
  54                                         <li>Internal and external sorting routines
  55                                         <li>Generic data structures (heaps, search trees, growing buffers)
  56                                         <li>Unicode manipulation
  57                                         <li>Main loop (watching over file descriptors, sub-processes and timers)
  58                                         <li>Thread support
  59                                         <li>Configuration system
  60                                         <li>Modular system for <tt>configure</tt> scripts
  61                                         <li>Build system
  62                                         <li>Documentation system
  63                                 </ul>
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  65                         <div class="section" id="addlib"><h2>Additional libraries</h2>
  66                                 <p>
  67                                         The package contains few other libraries which you might find useful.
  68                                         You can build &amp; install libUCW with them or without.
  69                                         However they are not documented and are more specific.
  70                                 <ul>
  71                                         <li><strong>libcharset</strong> &ndash; allows manipulation with character sets.
  72                                         <li><strong>libsh</strong> &ndash; the <a href='/holmes'>Sherlock Holmes</a> library. It contains some routines for storing large amounts of data and alike.
  73                                         <li><strong>liblang</strong> &ndash; guessing of text language.
  74                                         <li><strong>libimages</strong> &ndash; manipulation with images.
  75                                 </ul>
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  77                         <div class="section" id="license"><h2>License</h2>
  78                                 <p>
  79                                         The library is available under the terms of <a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html">GNU Lesser Public License</a> (LGPL) with the exception of few modules, which are in public domain.
  80                                 <p>
  81                                         There is also a commercial version of the library, available with the <a href="/holmes/#license">commercial version of Sherlock Holmes</a>.
  82                                         However, unlike the Sherlock Holmes, the commercial version of library does not come with additional features.
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  84                         <div class="section" id="authors"><h2>Authors</h2>
  85                                 <p>
  86                                         The library is developed together with Sherlock Holmes by the same authors. Most of it was written by <a href='http://mj.ucw.cz'>Martin Mare¹</a>, <a href="http://www.ucw.cz/~robert/index-en.html">Robert ©palek</a>, Pavel Charvát and <a href="http://vorner.ucw.cz/en/">Michal Vaner</a>.
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  88                         <div class="section" id="download"><h2>Download</h2>
  89                                 <p>
  90                                         Currently, version 4.0 is available.
  91                                 <p>
  92                                         You can download it via <a href="download/">HTTP</a> or via <a href="ftp://ftp.ucw.cz/pub/libucw/">FTP</a>.
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  94                         <div class="section" id="docs"><h2>Documentation</h2>
  95                                 <p>
  96                                         Although the documentation is not yet complete, you can <a href="documentation">browse</a> the part which is already written. You can compile the same documentation from the package.
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  98                         <div class="section" id="bugs"><h2>Reporting bugs</h2>
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 100                                         All reports about bugs, inconveniences or ideas for new features are welcome at <a href="mailto:holmes-bugs@ucw.cz">holmes-bugs@ucw.cz</a>. Patches implementing them are welcome even more ;-).
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 102                                         If you use the library to your pleasure, the authors will be glad to hear that at the same address.
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