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+# KISS EIS Dataformaters
+
+Dataformaters contains misc. data formating utilites that are used to transfer file types used by eisgenerator/eistype into forign formats
+
+## Requirements
+
+* You must be running unix or a unix-like os such as linux
+* A c++17 compiler like gcc
+* cmake
+* libeisgenerator
+* libkisstype
+* git
+
+## Build and instructions
+
+```
+$ git clone REPO_URL dataformaters
+$ cd dataformaters
+$ mkdir build
+$ cd build
+$ cmake ..
+$ make
+$ make install
+```