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+GNU cpio 2.3
+	originals can be found at: ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu
+	removed files:
+		INSTALL         cpio.def        mkinstalldirs
+		Makefile.in     fnmatch.c       mt.1
+		argmatch.c      fnmatch.h       mt.c
+		bcopy.c         makefile.os2    rmt.c
+		configure       makefile.pc     strdup.c
+		configure.in    mkdir.c
+	obrien@FreeBSD.org