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-$FreeBSD$
-
-The release notes and other documentation files formerly in this
-directory are now rendered from SGML as part of the release build.
-
-If you are a committer wishing to update the release documentation,
-please edit the SGML files under src/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/ or
-send a message to freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org with a plain-text
-submission.
-
-ASCII text versions appear on the floppy images (as before), while
-both ASCII and HTML versions are included in the CDROM and FTP
-directory trees.
-
-Renditions of the release documentation files for FreeBSD -CURRENT,
-FreeBSD 4-STABLE, and selected releases are available at:
-
-http://people.FreeBSD.org/~bmah/relnotes/
-
-For more information, please see src/release/doc/README.
-