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Introduction
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   This manual is incomplete: No attempt is made to explain basic
concepts in a way suitable for novices.  Thus, if you are interested,
please get involved in improving this manual.  The entire GNU community
will benefit.

   The GNU text utilities are mostly compatible with the POSIX.2
standard.

   Please report bugs to `textutils-bugs@gnu.ai.mit.edu'.  Remember to
include the version number, machine architecture, input files, and any
other information needed to reproduce the bug: your input, what you
expected, what you got, and why it is wrong.  Diffs are welcome, but
please include a description of the problem as well, since this is
sometimes difficult to infer. Note: Bugs.

   This manual is based on the Unix man pages in the distribution, which
were originally written by David MacKenzie and updated by Jim Meyering.
The original `fmt' man page was written by Ross Paterson.  Franc,ois
Pinard did the initial conversion to Texinfo format.  Karl Berry did
the indexing, some reorganization, and editing of the results.  Richard
Stallman contributed his usual invaluable insights to the overall
process.

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