# User's Guide

## 3.9 Views

Boost.Iostreams provides a number of templates for combining one or more Filters or Devices to produce a Filter or Device that performs i/o by delegating to the given components in a straightforward way. Each view consists of a class template, whose template parameters represnt the component Filters and Devices, together with an object generator.

The views provided with Boost.Iostreams are summarized in the Quick Reference.

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