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+/*
+**  Copyright 2002-2003 University of Illinois Board of Trustees
+**  Copyright 2002-2003 Mark D. Roth
+**  All rights reserved.
+**
+**  internal.h - internal header file for libtar
+**
+**  Mark D. Roth <roth@uiuc.edu>
+**  Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services
+**  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
+*/
+
+#include <config.h>
+#include <compat.h>
+
+#include <libtar.h>
+