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The Shapefile C Library provides the ability to write simple C programs for reading, writing and updating (to a limited extent) ESRI Shapefiles, and the associated attribute file (.dbf). This package also contains various utility programs for using shapelib.
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The shapelib-devel package contains development files for applications that use shapelib.