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