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+/*
+  Copyright 1999-2009 ImageMagick Studio LLC, a non-profit organization
+  dedicated to making software imaging solutions freely available.
+  
+  You may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+  obtain a copy of the License at
+  
+    http://www.imagemagick.org/script/license.php
+  
+  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+  limitations under the License.
+
+  MagickCore image coder methods.
+*/
+#ifndef _MAGICKCORE_CODER_H
+#define _MAGICKCORE_CODER_H
+
+#if defined(__cplusplus) || defined(c_plusplus)
+extern "C" {
+#endif
+
+typedef struct _CoderInfo
+{
+  char
+    *path,
+    *magick,
+    *name;
+                                                                                
+  MagickBooleanType
+    stealth;
+                                                                                
+  struct _CoderInfo
+    *previous,
+    *next;  /* deprecated, use GetCoderInfoList() */
+
+  unsigned long
+    signature;
+} CoderInfo;
+
+extern MagickExport char
+  **GetCoderList(const char *,unsigned long *,ExceptionInfo *);
+
+extern MagickExport const CoderInfo
+  *GetCoderInfo(const char *,ExceptionInfo *),
+  **GetCoderInfoList(const char *,unsigned long *,ExceptionInfo *);
+
+extern MagickExport MagickBooleanType
+  ListCoderInfo(FILE *,ExceptionInfo *);
+
+MagickExport void
+  DestroyCoderList(void);
+
+#if defined(__cplusplus) || defined(c_plusplus)
+}
+#endif
+
+#endif