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-This is a distribution of bigfcc.py, a C++ Class Framework generator
-
-* Licensing
-
-  This program is released under the terms of the GNU General Public
-  License (GNU GPL).  
-
-  You can find a copy of the license in the file COPYING.
-
-* Using:
-
-  Bigfcc comes with a complete list of commands that can be seen by
-  running the command with no arguments.  See the man page that comes
-  with it.
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+Fcc is a tool to rapidly generate the basic framework of C++ class and
+components. fcc can generate inline files, testing components, and basic
+copyright notices
+
+* Licensing
+
+This program is released under the terms of the GNU General Public
+License (GNU GPL).  
+
+You can find a copy of the license in the file COPYING.
+
+* Using:
+
+Bigfcc comes with a complete list of commands that can be seen by
+running the command with no arguments.  See the man page that comes
+with it.