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+// (C) Copyright 2008 CodeRage, LLC (turkanis at coderage dot com)
+// (C) Copyright 2003-2007 Jonathan Turkanis
+// Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying
+// file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt.)
+
+// See http://www.boost.org/libs/iostreams for documentation.
+
+#ifndef NDNBOOST_IOSTREAMS_DETAIL_IOSTREAM_HPP_INCLUDED
+#define NDNBOOST_IOSTREAMS_DETAIL_IOSTREAM_HPP_INCLUDED
+
+#if defined(_MSC_VER) && (_MSC_VER >= 1020)
+# pragma once
+#endif              
+                 
+#include <ndnboost/iostreams/detail/config/wide_streams.hpp>
+#ifndef NDNBOOST_IOSTREAMS_NO_STREAM_TEMPLATES
+# include <istream>
+# include <ostream>
+#else
+# include <iostream.h>
+#endif
+
+#ifndef NDNBOOST_IOSTREAMS_NO_STREAM_TEMPLATES
+# define NDNBOOST_IOSTREAMS_BASIC_ISTREAM(ch, tr) std::basic_istream< ch, tr >
+# define NDNBOOST_IOSTREAMS_BASIC_OSTREAM(ch, tr) std::basic_ostream< ch, tr >
+# define NDNBOOST_IOSTREAMS_BASIC_IOSTREAM(ch, tr) std::basic_iostream< ch, tr >
+#else
+# define NDNBOOST_IOSTREAMS_BASIC_STREAMBUF(ch, tr) std::streambuf
+# define NDNBOOST_IOSTREAMS_BASIC_ISTREAM(ch, tr) std::istream
+# define NDNBOOST_IOSTREAMS_BASIC_OSTREAM(ch, tr) std::ostream
+# define NDNBOOST_IOSTREAMS_BASIC_IOSTREAM(ch, tr) std::iostream
+#endif
+
+#endif // #ifndef NDNBOOST_IOSTREAMS_DETAIL_IOSTREAM_HPP_INCLUDED