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+This is a Unix port of the Plan 9 regular expression library,
+originally done for the Inferno operating system.
+
+Russ Cox repackaged this to build as a standalone
+Unix library.  Send comments about packaging to
+Russ Cox <rsc@post.harvard.edu>
+