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+Binding to a tiny part of [libusb](http://libusb.info/).
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+For a more complete binding, have a look at the more complete and more advanced [ocaml-usb](https://github.com/letoh/ocaml-usb).
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+I wrote this alternate binding:
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+- in order to experiment more in depth with Ctypes;
+- and because I needed something more portable than ocaml-usb: this one is working on Windows, which was not the case of ocaml-usb when I started this project.
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