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A file can have several versions, as described above.
Likewise, a software product can have several versions.
A software product is often given a version number such
as &lsquo;<code>4.1.1</code>&rsquo;.

Versions in the first sense are called <em>revisions</em>
in this document, and versions in the second sense are
called <em>releases</em>.  To avoid confusion, the word
<em>version</em> is almost never used in this document.

This document was generated on <i>a sunny day</i> using [http://www.nongnu.org/texi2html/ <i>texi2html</i>].
