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 Without introducing some artificial compatibility layers,
 a native windows development environment (e.g. Visual Studio 2010)
 does not know about some includes known in the UNIX world.
 
 For this reason the winquirks/ directory shall provide a minimal
-approach to such an compatibility layer.
+approach to such a compatibility layer.