L I C E N S E

  Slice -- Extract pre-defined slices of an ASCII file

  Copyright (c) 1997-2002 Ralf S. Engelschall.
  Copyright (c) 1999-2002 Denis Barbier.

  This program 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 of the License, or
  (at your option) any later version.

  This program 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.

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  and because of this, it can be redistributed and modified under the
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                                Ralf S. Engelschall
                                rse@engelschall.com
                                www.engelschall.com