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**                      VTF3 Trace Library                                 **
**                      http://www.tu-dresden.de/zhr/                      **
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**   COPYRIGHT 2005                                                        **
**   ZHR, TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT DRESDEN, GERMANY                          **
**   Contact: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang E. Nagel <nagel@zhr.tu-dresden.de>        **
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: This software uses ZLIB v1.2.2, a general purpose data 
compression library. We reproduce the original copyright notice of ZLIB in 
the enclosed README.zlib file.