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\centerline{by Donald E. Knuth}
\centerline{Stanford University}
\centerline{$\copyright$ 1983}
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\centerline{({\sl Version 0.999, July 1983\/})}
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This is the ``almost there'' release of the new \TeX\ system. A few
changes may prove to be necessary or desirable before this code is
published in {\sl Computers and Typesetting}, Volume 1, but
there is good reason to believe that Version~1 will be almost identical to
Version~0.999. A reward of $\$5.12$ is cheerfully paid to the first person who
finds any programming mistake in this code; also, typographical errors
are worth $\$$1.28.

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The preparation of this report was supported in part by the National Science
Foundation under grants IST-8201926 and MCS-8300984,
and by the System Development Foundation.
`\TeX' is a trademark of the American Mathematical Society.

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