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+Webchecker
+----------
+
+This is a simple web tree checker, useful to find bad links in a web
+tree.  It currently checks links pointing within the same subweb for
+validity.  The main program is "webchecker.py".  See its doc string
+(or invoke it with the option "-?") for more defails.
+
+The module robotparser.py was written by Skip Montanaro; the rest is
+original work.
+
+Jan 29, 1997.
+
+--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)