\def\filedate{90/06/04}

Copyright (C) 1989,1990 by Frank Mittelbach.  All rights reserved.

IMPORTANT NOTICE:

You are not allowed to change this readme file.

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You should get the following files:


  doc.sty          The `doc' style option. This time without
                   documentation. The next release will cover all
                   new features.
  docstrip.tex     Hack to strip off comments in doc files.
  docstrip.cmd     Command file for docstrip.tex to produce multicol.sty.
  gind.ist         Style file for the makeindex program to sort
                   the index produced by the doc option.
  gglo.ist         Style file for the makeindex program to sort
                   the changes (.glo) produced by the doc option.
  multicol.doc     `multicolumn' style for LaTeX, you have to run this
                   through the docstrip.tex program to produce the
                   corresponding style file.
  multicol.tex     Driver for multicol documentation. See notes in this
                   file.
  newdoc.sty       This is a variant form of doc.sty in which I changed
                   some of the macros defined in doc.sty. It is in
                   some sense the beta-test version of a new doc.sty and
                   I would be glad if people who are using doc.sty to 
                   document their own macros would use newdoc instead
                   of doc.
                   At the moment it contains a new implementation of
                   the \DoNotIndex feature (which is faster and allows
                   arbitrary exclusions) and a redefinition of \verb to
                   catch missing end delimiters.
  readme.mz1       This file.



To produce the style files please run docstrip.tex  through LaTeX
and answer the question

 `Command files docstrip.cmd found. Use it (y/n)?'

with `y'. This will generate all style files. If you already have
older versions of the files, docstrip will ask whether or not you
want to overwrite those versions.


The \fileversion and \filedate lines below are generated so that you can
easily check differences from your version by using diff etc.


doc.bug: \def\filedate{90/05/24}
doc.sty: \def\fileversion{v1.6a}
doc.sty: \def\filedate{90/05/24}
docstrip.tex: \def\fileversion{v1.1i}
docstrip.tex: \def\filedate{90/05/24}
multicol.bug: \def\filedate{90/05/20}
multicol.doc: \def\fileversion{v1.3a}
multicol.doc: \def\filedate{90/05/20}
multicol.tex: \def\filedate{90/05/24}
readme.mz1: \def\filedate{90/06/04}