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+This library provides a wrapper to mmap(2) or MapViewOfFile,
+allowing files or devices to be lazily loaded into memory as strict
+or lazy ByteStrings, ForeignPtrs or plain Ptrs, using the virtual
+memory subsystem to do on-demand loading. Modifications are also
+supported.
+
+This requires ghc.
+
+After uninstalling, run this command to unregister the package from
+the ghc package database: ghc-pkg recache