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<h2 id="introduction">Introduction</h2>

<p>The portability library provides platform-independent interfaces to platform-specific features.
This is so that programs can be written to be inherently portable by using this library to access
those features. The target platforms for portability are Windows NT/2k/XP/Vista and all flavours of
Posix-compliant Unix, including all the flavours of Gnu/Linux on PCs, MacOS X on the Apple Macintosh,
plus So