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\ctrline{by Donald E. Knuth}
\ctrline{Stanford University}
\ctrline{$\copyright$ 1982}
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\ctrline{({\sl September, 1982: Version 0\/})}
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\noindent
This is the ``pre-manual'' release of the new \TeX\ system. A few
changes may prove to be necessary or desirable
while the manual is being written, but
there is good reason to believe that Version@1 will not differ much
from Version@0. A reward of $\$5.00$ is cheerfully paid to the first person who
finds any programming mistake in this code; also, typographical errors
are worth $\$$1.00.

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The preparation of this report was supported in part by the National Science
Foundation under grants IST-8201926 and MCS-7723738,
and by the System Development Foundation.
`\TeX' is a trademark of the American Mathematical Society.

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