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+Version 2.0:
+
+The most important user visible change is that egrep and fgrep have
+disappeared as separate programs into the single grep program mandated
+by POSIX 1003.2.  New options -G, -E, and -F have been added,
+selecting grep, egrep, and fgrep behavior respectively.  For
+compatibility with historical practice, hard links named egrep and
+fgrep are also provided.  See the manual page for details.
+
+In addition, the regular expression facilities described in Posix
+draft 11.2 are now supported, except for internationalization features
+related to locale-dependent collating sequence information.
+
+There is a new option, -L, which is like -l except it lists
+files which don't contain matches.  The reason this option was
+added is because '-l -v' doesn't do what you expect.
+
+Performance has been improved; the amount of improvement is platform
+dependent, but (for example) grep 2.0 typically runs at least 30% faster
+than grep 1.6 on a DECstation using the MIPS compiler.  Where possible,
+grep now uses mmap() for file input; on a Sun 4 running SunOS 4.1 this
+may cut system time by as much as half, for a total reduction in running
+time by nearly 50%.  On machines that don't use mmap(), the buffering
+code has been rewritten to choose more favorable alignments and buffer
+sizes for read().
+
+Portability has been substantially cleaned up, and an automatic
+configure script is now provided.
+
+The internals have changed in ways too numerous to mention.
+People brave enough to reuse the DFA matcher in other programs
+will now have their bravery amply "rewarded", for the interface
+to that file has been completely changed.  Some changes were
+necessary to track the evolution of the regex package, and since
+I was changing it anyway I decided to do a general cleanup.