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@dircategory Libraries
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* Readline: (readline).       The GNU readline library API
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This document describes the GNU Readline Library, a utility which aids
in the consistency of user interface across discrete programs that need
to provide a command line interface.

Copyright (C) 1988-2001 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 Readline Library
@subtitle Edition @value{EDITION}, for @code{Readline 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 Readline Library, a utility which aids
in the consistency of user interface across discrete programs that need
to provide a command line interface.

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{} 1988-2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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@node Top
@top GNU Readline Library

This document describes the GNU Readline Library, a utility which aids
in the consistency of user interface across discrete programs that need
to provide a command line interface.

@menu
* Command Line Editing::	   GNU Readline User's Manual.
* Programming with GNU Readline::  GNU Readline 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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@node Concept Index
@unnumbered Concept Index
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@node Function and Variable Index
@unnumbered Function and Variable Index
@printindex fn

@contents
@bye