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 others are freely redistributable in this archive, but remain
 copyrighted by their original authors. See the file LICENSE for more
 information.
+
+NOTE: many of these programs were developed on interpreters that did not
+produce warnings.  When running them with `bef` it is recommended to
+suppress extraneous output with `bef -q`.
+
+NOTE: dates are given in Month/Day/Year Minus 1900 format, and many of
+these dates are questionable, especially when Day is 1.
 
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