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1.1     ! maekawa     1: Copyright (c) 1993-1994 by Xerox Corporation.  All rights reserved.
        !             2:
        !             3: THIS MATERIAL IS PROVIDED AS IS, WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY EXPRESSED
        !             4: OR IMPLIED.  ANY USE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK.
        !             5:
        !             6: Permission is hereby granted to use or copy this program
        !             7: for any purpose,  provided the above notices are retained on all copies.
        !             8: Permission to modify the code and to distribute modified code is granted,
        !             9: provided the above notices are retained, and a notice that the code was
        !            10: modified is included with the above copyright notice.
        !            11:
        !            12: Please send bug reports to Hans-J. Boehm (boehm@sgi.com).
        !            13:
        !            14: This is a string packages that uses a tree-based representation.
        !            15: See cord.h for a description of the functions provided.  Ec.h describes
        !            16: "extensible cords", which are essentially output streams that write
        !            17: to a cord.  These allow for efficient construction of cords without
        !            18: requiring a bound on the size of a cord.
        !            19:
        !            20: de.c is a very dumb text editor that illustrates the use of cords.
        !            21: It maintains a list of file versions.  Each version is simply a
        !            22: cord representing the file contents.  Nonetheless, standard
        !            23: editing operations are efficient, even on very large files.
        !            24: (Its 3 line "user manual" can be obtained by invoking it without
        !            25: arguments.  Note that ^R^N and ^R^P move the cursor by
        !            26: almost a screen.  It does not understand tabs, which will show
        !            27: up as highlighred "I"s.  Use the UNIX "expand" program first.)
        !            28: To build the editor, type "make cord/de" in the gc directory.
        !            29:
        !            30: This package assumes an ANSI C compiler such as gcc.  It will
        !            31: not compile with an old-style K&R compiler.