libgsf -- The G Structured File Library
Jody Goldberg <[email protected]>

   The project aims to provide an efficient extensible i/o abstraction for
dealing with different structured file formats.

   libgsf is licensed under the terms of the GNU LGPL included in the
file COPYING.LIB.

To report libgsf bugs, please visit bugzilla.gnome.org.
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This library has taken insight from

OLE:
    - libole : Michael Meeks, Arturo Tena, and Frank Chiulli
	- which was based on
	    Laola : by Martin Schwartz
	    WINE : Marcus Meissner, Francis Beaudet, Sylvain St-Germain and
		    Thuy Nguyen
	    Caolan McNamara's work

    - POIFS : Marc Johnson

VBA:
    - libole : Michael Meeks and Frank Chiulli figuring out quite a bit about
		how a vba stream is stored.
    - OpenOffice : For confirming many of Michael's hypothesis' and supplying
		insight into the project file structure.
    - Costin Raiu, Kaspersky Labs <[email protected]>
	: For commenting that the dir stream had offsets too.  That way we can
	   avoid OpenOffice's trouble parsing pcode.

gzip:
    - zlib : for doing all the heavy lifting, and suppling gzio.c as an
		example.

Requirements
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    autoconf	2.5x
    automake	1.7

    glib	>= 1.3.10
    zlib	>= 1.1.3
    libxml2	>= 2.4.16	(not really, but it is the first to be tested)

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