documentation, and unused/rarely used functions.

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  r61724 | martin.v.loewis | 2008-03-22 01:01:12 +0100 (Sat, 22 Mar 2008) | 49 lines

  Merged revisions 61602-61723 via svnmerge from
  svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/sandbox/trunk/2to3/lib2to3

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    r61626 | david.wolever | 2008-03-19 17:19:16 +0100 (Mi, 19 M?\195?\164r 2008) | 1 line

    Added fixer for implicit local imports.  See #2414.
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    r61628 | david.wolever | 2008-03-19 17:57:43 +0100 (Mi, 19 M?\195?\164r 2008) | 1 line

    Added a class for tests which should not run if a particular import is found.
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    r61629 | collin.winter | 2008-03-19 17:58:19 +0100 (Mi, 19 M?\195?\164r 2008) | 1 line

    Two more relative import fixes in pgen2.
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    r61635 | david.wolever | 2008-03-19 20:16:03 +0100 (Mi, 19 M?\195?\164r 2008) | 1 line

    Fixed print fixer so it will do the Right Thing when it encounters __future__.print_function.  2to3 gets upset, though, so the tests have been commented out.
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    r61637 | david.wolever | 2008-03-19 21:37:17 +0100 (Mi, 19 M?\195?\164r 2008) | 3 lines

    Added a fixer for itertools imports (from itertools import imap, ifilterfalse --> from itertools import filterfalse)
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    r61645 | david.wolever | 2008-03-19 23:22:35 +0100 (Mi, 19 M?\195?\164r 2008) | 1 line

    SVN is happier when you add the files you create... -_-'
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    r61654 | david.wolever | 2008-03-20 01:09:56 +0100 (Do, 20 M?\195?\164r 2008) | 1 line

    Added an explicit sort order to fixers -- fixes problems like #2427
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    r61664 | david.wolever | 2008-03-20 04:32:40 +0100 (Do, 20 M?\195?\164r 2008) | 3 lines

    Fixes #2428 -- comments are no longer eatten by __future__ fixer.
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    r61673 | david.wolever | 2008-03-20 17:22:40 +0100 (Do, 20 M?\195?\164r 2008) | 1 line

    Added 2to3 node pretty-printer
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    r61679 | david.wolever | 2008-03-20 20:50:42 +0100 (Do, 20 M?\195?\164r 2008) | 1 line

    Made node printing a little bit prettier
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    r61723 | martin.v.loewis | 2008-03-22 00:59:27 +0100 (Sa, 22 M?\195?\164r 2008) | 2 lines

    Fix whitespace.
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  r61725 | martin.v.loewis | 2008-03-22 01:02:41 +0100 (Sat, 22 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  Install lib2to3.
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  r61731 | facundo.batista | 2008-03-22 03:45:37 +0100 (Sat, 22 Mar 2008) | 4 lines


  Small fix that complicated the test actually when that
  test failed.
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  r61732 | alexandre.vassalotti | 2008-03-22 05:08:44 +0100 (Sat, 22 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  Added warning for the removal of 'hotshot' in Py3k.
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  r61733 | georg.brandl | 2008-03-22 11:07:29 +0100 (Sat, 22 Mar 2008) | 4 lines

  #1918: document that weak references *to* an object are
  cleared before the object's __del__ is called, to ensure that the weak
  reference callback (if any) finds the object healthy.
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  r61734 | georg.brandl | 2008-03-22 11:56:23 +0100 (Sat, 22 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  Activate the Sphinx doctest extension and convert howto/functional to use it.
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  r61735 | georg.brandl | 2008-03-22 11:58:38 +0100 (Sat, 22 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  Allow giving source names on the cmdline.
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  r61737 | georg.brandl | 2008-03-22 12:00:48 +0100 (Sat, 22 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  Fixup this HOWTO's doctest blocks so that they can be run with sphinx' doctest builder.
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  r61739 | georg.brandl | 2008-03-22 12:47:10 +0100 (Sat, 22 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  Test decimal.rst doctests as far as possible with sphinx doctest.
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  r61741 | georg.brandl | 2008-03-22 13:04:26 +0100 (Sat, 22 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  Make doctests in re docs usable with sphinx' doctest.
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  r61743 | georg.brandl | 2008-03-22 13:59:37 +0100 (Sat, 22 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  Make more doctests in pprint docs testable.
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  r61744 | georg.brandl | 2008-03-22 14:07:06 +0100 (Sat, 22 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  No need to specify explicit "doctest_block" anymore.
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  r61753 | georg.brandl | 2008-03-22 21:08:43 +0100 (Sat, 22 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix-up syntax problems.
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  r61761 | georg.brandl | 2008-03-22 22:06:20 +0100 (Sat, 22 Mar 2008) | 4 lines

  Make collections' doctests executable.

  (The <BLANKLINE>s will be stripped from presentation output.)
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  r61765 | georg.brandl | 2008-03-22 22:21:57 +0100 (Sat, 22 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  Test doctests in datetime docs.
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  r61766 | georg.brandl | 2008-03-22 22:26:44 +0100 (Sat, 22 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  Test doctests in operator docs.
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  r61767 | georg.brandl | 2008-03-22 22:38:33 +0100 (Sat, 22 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  Enable doctests in functions.rst.  Already found two errors :)
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  r61769 | georg.brandl | 2008-03-22 23:04:10 +0100 (Sat, 22 Mar 2008) | 3 lines

  Enable doctest running for several other documents.
  We have now over 640 doctests that are run with "make doctest".
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  r61773 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-03-23 01:55:46 +0100 (Sun, 23 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Simplify demo code.
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  r61776 | neal.norwitz | 2008-03-23 04:43:33 +0100 (Sun, 23 Mar 2008) | 7 lines

  Try to make this test a little more robust and not fail with:
    timeout (10.0025) is more than 2 seconds more than expected (0.001)

  I'm assuming this problem is caused by DNS lookup.  This change
  does a DNS lookup of the hostname before trying to connect, so the time
  is not included.
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  r61777 | neal.norwitz | 2008-03-23 05:08:30 +0100 (Sun, 23 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Speed up the test by avoiding socket timeouts.
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  r61778 | neal.norwitz | 2008-03-23 05:43:09 +0100 (Sun, 23 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Skip the epoll test if epoll() does not work
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  r61780 | neal.norwitz | 2008-03-23 06:47:20 +0100 (Sun, 23 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Suppress failure (to avoid a flaky test) if we cannot connect to svn.python.org
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  r61781 | neal.norwitz | 2008-03-23 07:13:25 +0100 (Sun, 23 Mar 2008) | 4 lines

  Move itertools before future_builtins since the latter depends on the former.
  From a clean build importing future_builtins would fail since itertools
  wasn't built yet.
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  r61782 | neal.norwitz | 2008-03-23 07:16:04 +0100 (Sun, 23 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Try to prevent the alarm going off early in tearDown
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  r61783 | neal.norwitz | 2008-03-23 07:19:57 +0100 (Sun, 23 Mar 2008) | 4 lines

  Remove compiler warnings (on Alpha at least) about using chars as
  array subscripts.  Using chars are dangerous b/c they are signed
  on some platforms and unsigned on others.
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  r61788 | georg.brandl | 2008-03-23 09:05:30 +0100 (Sun, 23 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  Make the doctests presentation-friendlier.
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  r61793 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-03-23 10:55:29 +0100 (Sun, 23 Mar 2008) | 4 lines

  #1477: ur'\U0010FFFF' raised in narrow unicode builds.
  Corrected the raw-unicode-escape codec to use UTF-16 surrogates in
  this case, just like the unicode-escape codec.
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  r61796 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-03-23 14:32:32 +0100 (Sun, 23 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Issue 1681432:  Add triangular distribution the random module.
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  r61807 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-03-23 20:37:53 +0100 (Sun, 23 Mar 2008) | 4 lines

  Adopt Nick's suggestion for useful default arguments.
  Clean-up floating point issues by adding true division and float constants.
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  r61813 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-03-23 22:04:43 +0100 (Sun, 23 Mar 2008) | 6 lines

  Fix gzip to deal with CRC's being signed values in Python 2.x properly and to
  read 32bit values as unsigned to start with rather than applying signedness
  fixups allover the place afterwards.

  This hopefully fixes the test_tarfile failure on the alpha/tru64 buildbot.
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  r59987 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-15 21:52:42 +0100 (Tue, 15 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Refactor if/elif chain for clarity and speed.  Remove dependency on subclasses having to implement _empty and _full.
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  r59988 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-15 22:22:47 +0100 (Tue, 15 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Fix-up half-written paragraph in the docs
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  r59989 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-01-15 22:25:11 +0100 (Tue, 15 Jan 2008) | 3 lines

  test_doctest fails since r59984.
  Not sure if these are the correct values, but save_stdout has to be set before its usage...
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  r59992 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-01-16 01:32:03 +0100 (Wed, 16 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Docstring typos
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  r59993 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-01-16 04:17:25 +0100 (Wed, 16 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Add PEP 3141 section
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  r59998 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-01-16 14:01:51 +0100 (Wed, 16 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Markup fix
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  r59999 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-16 17:56:29 +0100 (Wed, 16 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix MSDN library URL. (#1854)
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  r60006 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-16 21:27:56 +0100 (Wed, 16 Jan 2008) | 3 lines

  Add Python-specific content to Doc dir. Update configuration file
  to work with the newest Sphinx.
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  r60007 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-16 21:29:00 +0100 (Wed, 16 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Doc build should work with 2.4 now.
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  r60009 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-17 00:38:16 +0100 (Thu, 17 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Minor wordsmithing.
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  r60010 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-17 00:40:45 +0100 (Thu, 17 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Add queues will alternative fetch orders (priority based and stack based).
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  r60011 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-17 00:49:35 +0100 (Thu, 17 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Add news entry.
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  r60013 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-17 04:02:14 +0100 (Thu, 17 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Make starmap() match its pure python definition and accept any itertable input (not just tuples).
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  r60015 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-01-17 08:43:20 +0100 (Thu, 17 Jan 2008) | 3 lines

  Comply with RFC 3207.
  Fixes issue 829951 - http://bugs.python.org/issue829951
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  r60018 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-01-17 09:03:17 +0100 (Thu, 17 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  entry for r60015
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  r60019 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-17 09:07:05 +0100 (Thu, 17 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Note versionadded.
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  r60020 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-01-17 09:35:49 +0100 (Thu, 17 Jan 2008) | 8 lines

  Fixes (accepts patch) issue1339 - http://bugs.python.org/issue1339
  - Factor out the duplication of EHLO/HELO in login() and sendmail() to
    a new function, ehlo_or_helo_if_needed().
  - Use ehlo_or_helo_if_needed() in starttls()
  - Check for the starttls exception in starttls() in the same way as
    login() checks for the auth extension.
  Contributed by Bill Fenner.
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  r60021 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-01-17 13:00:15 +0100 (Thu, 17 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Revise 3141 section a bit; add some Windows items
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  r60022 | brett.cannon | 2008-01-17 19:45:10 +0100 (Thu, 17 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix a function pointer declaration to silence the compiler.
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  r60024 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-17 20:31:38 +0100 (Thu, 17 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Issue #1861:  Add read-only attribute listing upcoming events in the order they will be run.
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  r60025 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-01-17 20:49:24 +0100 (Thu, 17 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Correction from Jordan Lewis: halfdelay() uses tenths of a second, not milliseconds
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  r60026 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-17 23:27:49 +0100 (Thu, 17 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Add advice on choosing between scheduler and threading.Timer().
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  r60028 | christian.heimes | 2008-01-18 00:01:44 +0100 (Fri, 18 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Updated new property syntax. An elaborate example for subclassing and the getter was missing.
  Added comment about VS 2008 and PGO builds.
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  r60029 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-18 00:32:01 +0100 (Fri, 18 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Fix-up Timer() example.
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  r60030 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-18 00:56:56 +0100 (Fri, 18 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Fix markup
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  r60031 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-18 01:10:42 +0100 (Fri, 18 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  clearcache() needs to remove the dict as well as clear it.
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  r60033 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-01-18 03:26:16 +0100 (Fri, 18 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Bump verson
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  r60034 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-01-18 03:42:52 +0100 (Fri, 18 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Typo fix
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  r60035 | christian.heimes | 2008-01-18 08:30:20 +0100 (Fri, 18 Jan 2008) | 3 lines

  Coverity issue CID #197
  var_decl: Declared variable "stm" without initializer
  ninit_use_in_call: Using uninitialized value "stm" (field "stm".tm_zone uninitialized) in call to function "mktime"
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  r60036 | christian.heimes | 2008-01-18 08:45:30 +0100 (Fri, 18 Jan 2008) | 11 lines

  Coverity issue CID #167
  Event alloc_fn: Called allocation function "metacompile" [model]
  Event var_assign: Assigned variable "gr" to storage returned from "metacompile"
  		gr = metacompile(n);
  Event pass_arg: Variable "gr" not freed or pointed-to in function "maketables" [model]
  		g = maketables(gr);
    		translatelabels(g);
    		addfirstsets(g);
  Event leaked_storage: Returned without freeing storage "gr"
  		return g;
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  r60038 | christian.heimes | 2008-01-18 09:04:57 +0100 (Fri, 18 Jan 2008) | 3 lines

  Coverity issue CID #182
  size_error: Allocating 1 bytes to pointer "children", which needs at least 4 bytes
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  r60041 | christian.heimes | 2008-01-18 09:47:59 +0100 (Fri, 18 Jan 2008) | 4 lines

  Coverity issue CID #169
  local_ptr_assign_local: Assigning address of stack variable "namebuf" to pointer "filename"
  out_of_scope: Variable "namebuf" goes out of scope
  use_invalid: Used "filename" pointing to out-of-scope variable "namebuf"
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  r60042 | christian.heimes | 2008-01-18 09:53:45 +0100 (Fri, 18 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Coverity CID #168
  leaked_storage: Returned without freeing storage "fp"
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  r59606 | georg.brandl | 2007-12-29 11:57:00 +0100 (Sat, 29 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Some cleanup in the docs.
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  r59611 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-12-29 19:49:21 +0100 (Sat, 29 Dec 2007) | 2 lines

  Bug #1699: Define _BSD_SOURCE only on OpenBSD.
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  r59612 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-12-29 23:09:34 +0100 (Sat, 29 Dec 2007) | 1 line

  Simpler documentation for itertools.tee().  Should be backported.
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  r59613 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-12-29 23:16:24 +0100 (Sat, 29 Dec 2007) | 1 line

  Improve docs for itertools.groupby().  The use of xrange(0) to create a unique object is less obvious than object().
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  r59620 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-31 15:47:07 +0100 (Mon, 31 Dec 2007) | 3 lines

  Added wininst-9.0.exe executable for VS 2008
  Integrated bdist_wininst into PCBuild9 directory
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  r59621 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-31 15:51:18 +0100 (Mon, 31 Dec 2007) | 1 line

  Moved PCbuild directory to PC/VS7.1
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  r59622 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-31 15:59:26 +0100 (Mon, 31 Dec 2007) | 1 line

  Fix paths for build bot
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  r59623 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-31 16:02:41 +0100 (Mon, 31 Dec 2007) | 1 line

  Fix paths for build bot, part 2
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  r59624 | christian.heimes | 2007-12-31 16:18:55 +0100 (Mon, 31 Dec 2007) | 1 line

  Renamed PCBuild9 directory to PCBuild
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