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     14 <h2 class='title'><a name="OVERVIEW">Overview</a></h2>
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     16 <p>The CUPS file and directory APIs provide portable interfaces
     17 for manipulating files and listing files and directories. Unlike
     18 stdio <code>FILE</code> streams, the <code>cupsFile</code> functions
     19 allow you to open more than 256 files at any given time. They
     20 also manage the platform-specific details of locking, large file
     21 support, line endings (CR, LF, or CR LF), and reading and writing
     22 files using Flate ("gzip") compression. Finally, you can also
     23 connect, read from, and write to network connections using the
     24 <code>cupsFile</code> functions.</p>
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     26 <p>The <code>cupsDir</code> functions manage the platform-specific
     27 details of directory access/listing and provide a convenient way
     28 to get both a list of files and the information (permissions,
     29 size, timestamp, etc.) for each of those files.</p>
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