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+VMS-ed version of etags
+-----------------------
+
+1. The changes made allow the program to compile correctly,
+ to give error messages more meaningful to VMS, to allow '$'
+ in identifier tokens in C programs, and to expand wild-cards in the
+ input filespecs.
+
+2. To minimize the differences from the original version,
+ the VMS filename expansion converts filenames to lower
+ case, and strips version numbers. This does indeed mean
+ that some input specs (containing version wildcards) will
+ cause curious effects, it is reasonably consistent with
+ Emacs, which ignores file versions.
+