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+    /*
+
+    Copyright (C) 2000 Stefan Westerfeld
+                       stefan@space.twc.de
+
+    This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+    modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
+    License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
+    version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+  
+    This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+    Library General Public License for more details.
+   
+    You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public License
+    along with this library; see the file COPYING.LIB.  If not, write to
+    the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
+    Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
+
+    */
+
+/*
+ * BC - Status (2002-03-08): MCOPUtils
+ *
+ * Collection class for all kinds of utility functions. BC, since never
+ * instanciated.
+ */
+
+#ifndef MCOPUTILS_H
+#define MCOPUTILS_H
+
+#include <string>
+#include <vector>
+
+#include "arts_export.h"
+
+namespace Arts {
+
+class ARTS_EXPORT MCOPUtils {
+public:
+	/**
+	 * Returns the full pathname to a file in the mcop directory which
+	 * is called "name". It will also care that no other characters than
+	 * A-Z,a-z,0-9,-,_ occur.
+	 * 
+	 * The result is something like /tmp/mcop-<username>/name, the directory
+	 * will be created when necessary.
+	 */
+	static std::string createFilePath(std::string name);
+
+	/**
+	 * Returns the fully qualified hostname, such as "www.kde.org" (of course
+	 * this may fail due to misconfiguration).
+	 *
+	 * The result is "localhost" if nothing at all can be found out.
+	 */
+	static std::string getFullHostname();
+
+	/**
+	 * Returns configuration values from .mcoprc
+	 */
+	static std::string readConfigEntry(const std::string& key,
+										const std::string& defaultValue = "");
+
+	/**
+	 * Makes an interface ID from string - if the given string is already
+	 * known, the returned IID will be the one returned last time. If not,
+	 * a new IID is generated
+	 */
+	static unsigned long makeIID(const std::string& interfaceName);
+
+	/**
+	 * Returns the directories for the trader to look into
+	 */
+	static const std::vector<std::string> *traderPath();
+
+	/**
+	 * Returns the directories from where extensions can be loaded
+	 */
+	static const std::vector<std::string> *extensionPath();
+
+	/**
+	 * Returns the full path of the ~/.mcop directory
+	 */
+	static std::string mcopDirectory();
+
+	/**
+	 * Tokenization of a key = value1, "value 2", "value III" line into the key
+	 * and the values.
+	 */
+	static bool tokenize(const std::string& line, std::string& key,
+					     std::vector<std::string>& values);
+};
+
+}
+#endif /* MCOPUTILS_H */