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BOOT -- Bootstrap utilities for building and maintaining IRAF.  The utilities
in this package are implemented at the host system level, sometimes with
assistance from the iraf kernel or other libraries.  All utilites are host
system callable, regardless of how they are implemented.

Major directories:

	mkpkg		- package/library maintenance utility
	spp		- compiler for the SPP language
	rmbin		- seek out and destroy all binaries in a directory tree
	rtar		- tar file reader
	wtar		- tar file writer
	bootlib		- system interface for the bootstrap utilities

Others:

	xyacc		- SPP/Yacc
	generic		- generic preprocessor
	vfn		- old boot-boot version of vfn2osfn (not currently used)