diff --git a/SWIG/Lib/guile/stl.i b/SWIG/Lib/guile/stl.i
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-//
-// SWIG typemaps for STL types
-// Luigi Ballabio and Manu ???
-// Apr 26, 2002
-//
-
-%include std_string.i
-%include std_vector.i
-
diff --git a/SWIG/Lib/java/stl.i b/SWIG/Lib/java/stl.i
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-//
-// SWIG typemaps for STL types
-// Luigi Ballabio and Manu ???
-// Apr 26, 2002
-//
-
-%include std_string.i
-%include std_vector.i
-
diff --git a/SWIG/Lib/mzscheme/stl.i b/SWIG/Lib/mzscheme/stl.i
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index ce9a6c1a7..000000000
--- a/SWIG/Lib/mzscheme/stl.i
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-//
-// SWIG typemaps for STL types
-// Luigi Ballabio and Manu ???
-// Apr 26, 2002
-//
-
-%include std_string.i
-%include std_vector.i
-
diff --git a/SWIG/Lib/ocaml/stl.i b/SWIG/Lib/ocaml/stl.i
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index ce9a6c1a7..000000000
--- a/SWIG/Lib/ocaml/stl.i
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@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-//
-// SWIG typemaps for STL types
-// Luigi Ballabio and Manu ???
-// Apr 26, 2002
-//
-
-%include std_string.i
-%include std_vector.i
-
diff --git a/SWIG/Lib/perl5/stl.i b/SWIG/Lib/perl5/stl.i
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index ce9a6c1a7..000000000
--- a/SWIG/Lib/perl5/stl.i
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-//
-// SWIG typemaps for STL types
-// Luigi Ballabio and Manu ???
-// Apr 26, 2002
-//
-
-%include std_string.i
-%include std_vector.i
-
diff --git a/SWIG/Lib/php4/stl.i b/SWIG/Lib/php4/stl.i
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--- a/SWIG/Lib/php4/stl.i
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@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-//
-// SWIG typemaps for STL types
-// Luigi Ballabio and Manu ???
-// Apr 26, 2002
-//
-
-%include std_string.i
-%include std_vector.i
-
diff --git a/SWIG/Lib/python/stl.i b/SWIG/Lib/python/stl.i
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index ce9a6c1a7..000000000
--- a/SWIG/Lib/python/stl.i
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@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-//
-// SWIG typemaps for STL types
-// Luigi Ballabio and Manu ???
-// Apr 26, 2002
-//
-
-%include std_string.i
-%include std_vector.i
-
diff --git a/SWIG/Lib/ruby/stl.i b/SWIG/Lib/ruby/stl.i
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index ce9a6c1a7..000000000
--- a/SWIG/Lib/ruby/stl.i
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@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-//
-// SWIG typemaps for STL types
-// Luigi Ballabio and Manu ???
-// Apr 26, 2002
-//
-
-%include std_string.i
-%include std_vector.i
-
diff --git a/SWIG/Lib/stl.i b/SWIG/Lib/stl.i
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index 000000000..052518093
--- /dev/null
+++ b/SWIG/Lib/stl.i
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+//
+// SWIG typemaps for STL types
+// Luigi Ballabio
+// Jan 16, 2003
+//
+// the %include directives below will fetch the files from the 
+// appropriate language directory
+
+%include std_string.i
+%include std_vector.i
+
diff --git a/SWIG/Lib/tcl/stl.i b/SWIG/Lib/tcl/stl.i
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--- a/SWIG/Lib/tcl/stl.i
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-//
-// SWIG typemaps for STL types
-// Luigi Ballabio and Manu ???
-// Apr 26, 2002
-//
-
-%include std_string.i
-%include std_vector.i
-