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Licensing terms for `libio'
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   Since the `iostream' classes are so fundamental to standard C++, the
Free Software Foundation has agreed to a special exception to its
standard license, when you link programs with `libio.a':

     As a special exception, if you link this library with files
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   These functions are also available as part of the `libg++' library;
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