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@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ -`mkid' README +This is the GNU idutils package. -`mkid' is a simple, fast, high-capacity, language-independent -identifier database tool. Actually, the term `identifier' is too +It provides simple, fast, high-capacity, language-independent +identifier database tools. Actually, the term `identifier' is too limiting--`mkid' stores tokens, be they program identifiers of any form, literal numbers, or words of human-readable text. Database queries can be issued from the command-line, or from within emacs, @@ -11,11 +11,8 @@ serving as an augmented tags facility. and posted to comp.sources.unix in September 1987. It was then maintained and enhanced by a loose knit group of programmers on the Internet led by Tom Horsley <Tom.Horsley@mail.hcsc.com>. Tom released -`mkid2' on comp.sources.unix in March, 1991. Since then, Greg McGary -has resumed maintenance and is releasing an improved version 3 under GPL. - -Version 3 is an interim release. Version 4 will follow in the coming -months and include a cscope clone plus other improvements. +`mkid2' on comp.sources.unix in March, 1991. Greg McGary resumed +maintenance until 2000. See file `COPYING' for copying conditions. See file `INSTALL' for compilation and installation instructions. @@ -31,7 +28,6 @@ got, and why it is wrong. Diffs are welcome, but please include a description of the problem as well, since this is sometimes difficult to infer. - Local Variables: mode: text fill-column: 75 |