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-README for Edition 2.0.1 of the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual.
+README for Edition 2.3 of the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual.
 
 * This directory contains the texinfo source files for the Reference
 Manual, make-permuted-index, and the latest version of texinfo.tex,