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2008/06/18	- 1.6e -> 1.6f
		- Updated note for Slackware 12.1
2007/08/15	- 1.6d -> 1.6e
		- Removed gawk and grep links (now at the top)
		- Added note about the version that's included with
		  Slackware 12.0
Aug 2, 2006	- 1.6c -> 1.6d
Jan 27, 2006	- 1.6b -> 1.6c
		- Only run removepkg if it exists
Sep 22, 2005	- 1.6a -> 1.6b
		- Remove man-?.* instead of man-* (saving man-pages-*)
Sep 8, 2005	- 1.6 -> 1.6a
Jun 30, 2005	- 1.5p -> 1.6
		- Changed home URL from old maintainer's:
		  ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/home/aeb/linux-local/utils/man/
		  to the new maintainer's:
		  http://primates.ximian.com/~flucifredi/man/
		- Removed make and gcc links
		- Moved source directory (see note <a href="howtos.php?msd">here</a>)
		- Rearranged options to shut up the new version of find
		- root.root -> root:root, run when $UID = 0
Feb 16, 2005	- 1.5o1 -> 1.5p
Oct 29, 2004	- 1.5m2 -> 1.5o1
Sep 12, 2003	- 1.5m1 -> 1.5m2
		- Added prerequisites
Aug 27, 2003	- 1.5l -> 1.5m1
		- Create ~/installed with mode 700
		- Minor update to gpg verification part
Apr 10, 2003	- Modernized more
Mar 11, 2003	- Modernized
		- 1.5k -> 1.5l, fixes a security hole mentioned on bugtraq
Aug 20, 2002	- Added gpg verification
		- Removed makewhatis, which is run at the end of the
		  manpages howto, so why do it twice... if you use whatis
		  frequently, go nuts and run it anyway.
Aug 6, 2002	- 1.5j -> 1.5k

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