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+ H I S T O R Y
+ doc: Fri Jan 12 17:34:45 2018
+ dlm: Fri Jan 12 17:39:14 2018
+ (c) 2018 A.M. Thurnherr
+ uE-Info: 15 0 NIL 0 0 72 3 2 4 NIL ofnI
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+
+Jan 12, 2018:
+ - started HISTORY
+ - removed startup.m, because it causes problems with current Matlab
+ versions when this dir is added to the path (startup is loaded) on
+ other people's machines, because of local path names
+ - other mods and additions
+ - updated to V1 in [.hg/hgrc]
+