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NAME
       fhist - file history and	comparison tools
       Copyright (C) 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 Peter Miller.
       All rights reserved.

       Portions	of this	program	are
       Copyright (C) 1990 David	I. Bell.

       The fhist package is distrributed under the terms of the
       GNU General Public License, see the LICENSE section,
       below, for more information.

DESCRIPTION
       This package contains three source control utilities.

       fhist
	       Keeps track of versions of a file.  See fhist(1)
	       for more	information.

       fcomp
	       Compares	two versions of	a file.	 See fcomp(1) for
	       more information.

       fmerge
	       Merges together edits from two descendants of a
	       file.  See fmerge(1) for	more information.

REFERENCES
       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.

BUILDING
       For complete instructions for host to build these
       programs, see the BUILDING file included	in this
       distribution.

NEW IN THIS RELEASE
       A number	of features have been added to fhist with this
       release.	 A few of them are detailed here:

       * The fhist package now uses a shell script called
       configure to configure itself.  This script is generated
       using the GNU Autoconf utility.	This should make fhist
       significantly easier to configure, and significantly more
       portable.

       * A bug has been	fixed in the conflict reporting	of the



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       fmerge program.	It now correctly opens the conflicts
       file.

       * The fhist program now uses pathconf(2)	to determine file
       name length limits.

       Plus the	usual crop of bug fixes	and tinkering.	For
       excruciating detail, and	also acknowledgements of those
       who generously sent me feedback,	please see the
       aux/CHANGES.1.1 file included in	this distribution.

ARCHIVE	SITE
       The latest version of fhist is available	by anonymous FTP
       from:
	     Host:   ftp.nau.edu (134.114.64.90)
	     Dir:    /pub/Aegis
	     File:   fhist.1.1.tar.Z	 # the complete	source
	     File:   fhist.1.1.patch.Z	 # patch to take 1.0 to	1.1

       To use anonymous	FTP, give "anonymous" as the user name
       (omit the quotes) and your email	address	as the password.

       My grateful thanks to Paul Balyoz <pab@ftp.cse.nau.edu>
       for his generosity in providing this archive space.

       This directory also contains a few other	pieces of
       software	written	by me.	Please have a look if you are
       interested.

       For those of you	without	FTP, I recommend the use of an
       ftp-by-email server.  Here is a list of a few (there are
       many more):
	      ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com
	      ftpmail@cs.uow.edu.au

       In general, you can get a help message about how	to use
       each system by sending email with a subject of "help" and
       a message body containing just the word "help".

LICENSE
       This program is free software; you can redistribute it
       and/or modify it	under the terms	of the GNU General Public
       License as published by the Free	Software Foundation;
       either version 2	of the License,	or (at your option) any
       later version.

       This program is distributed in the hope that it will be
       useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
       warranty	of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
       PURPOSE.	 See the GNU General Public License for	more
       details.

       You should have received	a copy of the GNU General Public
       License along with this program;	if not,	write to the Free



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       Software	Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave,	Cambridge, MA
       02139, USA.

       It should be in the LICENSE file	included in this
       distribution.

AUTHORS
       Peter Miller    UUCP:	   uunet!munnari!bmr.gov.au!pmiller
       /\/\*	       Internet:   pmiller@bmr.gov.au

       David I.	Bell   UUCP:	   uunet!munnari!pdact.pd.necisa.oz.au!dbell
		       Internet:   dbell@pdact.pd.necisa.oz.au













































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