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+NOTE: THIS WILL NOT COMPILE. DO NOT EVEN TRY.
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+This is only here for historical reasons while we are busy puting togetehr a
+new codebase (outside of CVS for now). It will come into CVS just as soon as
+it is sufficiently functional enough to manag windows at the most basic
+level. It already has a lot of functionality, but this is not "good enough"
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 Additional notes
 
 todo