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1  This package was debianized by Jason Cater <jcater@gnue.org> on  This package was debianized by Jason Cater <jcater@gnue.org> on
2  Fri Oct  4 22:22:30 CDT 2002.  Fri Oct  4 22:22:30 CDT 2002 and heavily modified thereafter by
3    Jeff Bailey <jbailey@nisa.net> from sources obtained from CVS:
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5  It was downloaded from http://www.gnue.org/downloads/  :pserver:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/gnue
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