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<p>You will notice an unusually large number of changes, and especially
entry deletions before 4.4.0. I did Google searches to check on entries
that I suspected were not actually live. As a result, the amount of junk and
noise in the file has been greatly reduced. I wish I could have done
this years sooner.</p>
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<p>The Jargon File has undergone a major format change, from Texinfo
to XML-DocBook. The most immediate consequences of this are that (a)
the File now has pictures and cartoons, (b) the ‘one big
file’ version is gone, (c) the URLS to entries have
changed, and (d) there is a real <a href='changes.html'>change log
page</a> now.</p>
<p>The one-big-file version would no longer be very useful, because
the File now includes images and uses a CSS stylesheet. I had planned
to preserve all relative URLs into the site, but there now seems
little point since I had to change websites in January 2003.</p>
<p>Getting rid of the nasty pile of hacks and kluges that the Texinfo
machinery had grown into was a Good Thing. Maintenance of the Jargon
File will now be much simpler, and change tracking will work <a
href='changes.html'>much better</a>. We apologize for any
inconvenience the change may cause.</p>
<p>Also, the archive of old versions now contains text versions of every
release we have been able to recover. A few very early releases
(2.1.[234], 2.9[1-57-9]) are still missing.</p>
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<address>Eric S. Raymond <a
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