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+/*
+  Copyright 2009 Nathan Phillip Brink
+
+  This file is a part of DistRen.
+
+  DistRen is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+  it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+  the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+  (at your option) any later version.
+
+  DistRen 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 Affero General Public License for more details.
+
+  You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+  along with DistRen.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+*/
+
+#ifndef _DISTREN_LIBREMOTEIO_H
+#define _DISTREN_LIBREMOTEIO_H
+
+#include "remoteio.h"
+
+/**
+  private declarations for remoteio, to be included by options.c and remoteio.c
+ */
+
+struct remoteio_opts {
+  char *ssh_command;
+};
+
+
+#endif