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+Disclaimer!
+===========
+
+The various files included in the subdirectory for provided as a courtesy
+to Microsoft Visual Studio users.  The files were contributed by a thoughtful
+user and were not created by the authors of this project.  Moreover, the
+(current) authors have no way of maintaining, improving or even using the 
+files.
+
+** This means we can't answer any questions about the files! **
+
+That said, we have several reports of people successfully using the TCLAP
+library on various Windows platforms.  As long as you use a reasonably modern
+compiler (and Visual C++ apparently is), you shouldn't have any trouble.
+
+Good luck!