Werner,
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> A superfluous closing bracket.
fixed
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> The file and directory permissions in the latex2e.zip bundle are
> strange. I suggest `644' for all files and `755' for all directories.
probably better :-)
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> Some incorrect \changes dates.
changed. and modified the date but not the version for this file :-)
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> Another file which has changes in it without increasing the version
> number is `ltdefns.dtx'.
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> old LaTeX: 2004/02/20 v1.3g
> new beta version: 2004/09/18 v1.3g
again only docu changes so a kernel containing either file would be identical
in code
frank