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Revision history for Perl extension Language::XS

0.02  Fri Jun 30 03:05:28 CEST 2006
	- fix stray "-" not being quoted as required by newer perls.

0.01  Thu Jan 13 06:02:04 CET 2000
	- original version; created by cp -rp