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JBRYAN / System-Index-0.1 / Changes 
Revision history for Perl extension System::Index.

0.1  Mon Sep  4 11:51:46 2000
	- original version; created by Josiah Bryan
	- initial creation of cpu_index(), hd_index(), and mem_index().