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+Written 2004, Karl Berry.  Public domain.
+
+The asytestlibs.asy file is for testing various optional libraries that
+can be linked with Asymptote.  See
+http://tug.org/texlive/build.html#asymptote.
+
+
+Therest of the files are some basic tests for TeX Live being at all
+functional.  They are not being run by any cron job and are no longer up
+to date; it proved too time-consuming to keep everything going, so they
+have been moribund for some years now.  If anyone is interested, please
+go to work on it.
+
+The general idea is to have a "knowngood" dvi or pdf file, and compare
+it against the result of running with the current code.
+
+I wrote the DVI-comparing (which uses dvitype) script in Perl so it
+would have a chance of running under Windows.  I don't know if it really
+does.  Ditto the PDF-comparing script (which uses pdftoppm from the xpdf
+distribution).
+
+The numbers in the directory names are just an arbitrary prioritizing
+scheme, so simpler tests can be run before more complex ones.  Several
+tests can have the same priority number.
+
+I don't intend to try to make this any kind of exhaustive testing, we're
+just trying to make sure the most obvious things aren't broken.  The
+most important additional tests if they ever get resurrected are:
+  8-bit input (all common languages)
+  pdfconcat