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								@setfilename readline.info
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								@settitle GNU Readline Library
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								@include version.texi
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								This manual describes the GNU Readline Library
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								(version @value{VERSION}, @value{UPDATED}), a library which aids in the
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								consistency of user interface across discrete programs which provide
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								a command line interface.
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								Copyright @copyright{} 1988--2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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								@quotation
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								Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
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								under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or
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								any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no
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								Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.
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								A copy of the license is included in the section entitled
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								``GNU Free Documentation License''.
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								@end quotation
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								@end copying
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								@dircategory Libraries
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								@direntry
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								* Readline: (readline).       The GNU readline library API.
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								@end direntry
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								@titlepage  
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								@title GNU Readline Library
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								@subtitle Edition @value{EDITION}, for @code{Readline Library} Version @value{VERSION}.
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								@subtitle @value{UPDATED-MONTH}
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								@author Chet Ramey, Case Western Reserve University
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								@author Brian Fox, Free Software Foundation
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								@page
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								@end titlepage
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								@contents
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								@node Top
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								@top GNU Readline Library
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								This document describes the GNU Readline Library, a utility which aids
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								in the consistency of user interface across discrete programs which
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								The Readline home page is @url{http://www.gnu.org/software/readline/}.
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								@menu
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								* Command Line Editing::	   GNU Readline User's Manual.
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								* Programming with GNU Readline::  GNU Readline Programmer's Manual.
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								* GNU Free Documentation License::	License for copying this manual.
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								* Concept Index::		   Index of concepts described in this manual.
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								* Function and Variable Index::	   Index of externally visible functions
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												   and variables.
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								@include rluser.texi
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								@include rltech.texi
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								@node GNU Free Documentation License
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								@appendix GNU Free Documentation License
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								@include fdl.texi
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								@node Concept Index
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								@unnumbered Concept Index
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								@printindex cp
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								@node Function and Variable Index
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								@unnumbered Function and Variable Index
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								@printindex fn
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								@bye
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