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+The files in this directory are shared between the fileutils, sh-utils,
+and textutils packages. Not all files are used by each package.
+The autoconf tests required for these files are in ../m4.
+
+The library name, fetish, is a permutation of the first two
+letters of each of the package names: FIleutils, TExtutils, SH-utils.
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+The files in this directory are shared between the fileutils, sh-utils,
+and textutils packages.
+
These files are used by a program called aclocal (part of the GNU automake
package). aclocal uses these files to create aclocal.m4 which is in turn
used by autoconf to create the configure script at the the top level in