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On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 03:39:53PM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:

 > As a result, I had to tell Marcelo I had no choice but to drop maintaining
 > the 2.4 help file.  The divergence, and the damage, is probably not
 > recoverable.

 find . -name Config.help -exec cat {} >Configure.help \;

 Ok, they'll perhaps not be in the same order as your original
 working set, but that issue goes away when you split your
 set up with the tools Linus gave you, and regenerate.
 
 Maintaining is hard, lets go shopping.

-- 
| Dave Jones.        http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
| SuSE Labs
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