Cactus Code Thorn IOUtil
Author(s)    : Gabrielle Allen
               Tom Goodale
               Thomas Radke
Maintainer(s): Cactus team
Licence      : LGPL
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1. Purpose

This thorn is the flesh for IO - it always needs to be activated
if you want to do some IO in Cactus.

The thorn just provides basic IO parameters.
These are used in other IO thorns which do the real work.

It also provides a method for registration of recovery routines.


2. Additional information