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-*.gz *.Z *.tar *.tgz
-=*
-TODO COPYING* AUTHORS copyr-* copying.*
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-distinfo
diff --git a/sysdeps/mips/.cvsignore b/sysdeps/mips/.cvsignore
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-*.gz *.Z *.tar *.tgz
-=*
-TODO COPYING* AUTHORS copyr-* copying.*
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diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/bsd/sun/sunos4/.cvsignore b/sysdeps/unix/bsd/sun/sunos4/.cvsignore
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-TODO COPYING* AUTHORS copyr-* copying.*
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