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@settitle GNU History Library
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@dircategory Libraries
@direntry
* History: (history).       The GNU history library API
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This document describes the GNU History library, a programming tool that
provides a consistent user interface for recalling lines of previously
typed input.

Copyright (C) 1988-2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of
this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice
pare preserved on all copies.

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Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this
manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the entire
resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission
notice identical to this one.

Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this manual
into another language, under the above conditions for modified versions,
except that this permission notice may be stated in a translation approved
by the Free Software Foundation.
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@titlepage
@title GNU History Library
@subtitle Edition @value{EDITION}, for @code{History Library} Version @value{VERSION}.
@subtitle @value{UPDATE-MONTH}
@author Brian Fox, Free Software Foundation
@author Chet Ramey, Case Western Reserve University

@page
This document describes the GNU History library, a programming tool that
provides a consistent user interface for recalling lines of previously
typed input.

Published by the Free Software Foundation @*
59 Temple Place, Suite 330, @*
Boston, MA 02111 USA

Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of
this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice
are preserved on all copies.

Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this
manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the entire
resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission
notice identical to this one.

Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this manual
into another language, under the above conditions for modified versions,
except that this permission notice may be stated in a translation approved
by the Free Software Foundation.

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Copyright @copyright{} 1988-2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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@node Top
@top GNU History Library

This document describes the GNU History library, a programming tool that
provides a consistent user interface for recalling lines of previously
typed input.

@menu
* Using History Interactively::	  GNU History User's Manual.
* Programming with GNU History::  GNU History Programmer's Manual.
* Concept Index::		  Index of concepts described in this manual.
* Function and Variable Index::	  Index of externally visible functions
				  and variables.
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@include hstech.texinfo

@node Concept Index
@appendix Concept Index
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@node Function and Variable Index
@appendix Function and Variable Index
@printindex vr

@contents
@bye