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1.1 root 1: GNU Emacs availability information, 13 March 1988
2: Copyright (C) 1986, 1987, 1988 Richard M. Stallman
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20: It is usually in a file named COPYING in the same directory as this
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126: * Gas (the GNU Assembler)
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131: * the freed files from the 4.3BSD-Tahoe distribution
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