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This package contains three source control utilities from Peter Miller
<millerp@canb.auug.org.au>:

    fhist: Keeps track of versions of a file.  
    fcomp: Compares two versions of a file.
    fmerge: Merges together edits from two descendants of a file.  

This program is based on the algorithm in ``An O(ND) Difference
Algorithm and Its Variations'', Eugene W. Myers, TR 85-6, 10-April-1985,
Department of Computer Science, The University of Arizona, Tuscon,
Arizona 85721.

See also: ``A File Comparison Program, Webb Miller and Eugene W.
Myers'', Software Practice and Experience, Volume 15, No. 11,
November 1985.

- Joseph Koshy <jkoshy@freebsd.org>