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+This is GF-Complete, Revision 1.01.  
+
+The user's manual is in the file Manual.pdf.  
+
+There are two online homes for GF-Complete:
+
+  - https://bitbucket.org/jimplank/gf-complete
+  - http://www.cs.utk.edu/~plank/plank/papers/CS-13-716.html
+
+When compiling this for the first time, cd to flag_tester, and
+do "sh which_compile_flags.sh xxx", where xxx is the compiler
+that you will use in the GNUMakefile.
+