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+*.jar
diff --git a/projects/samskivert/lib/README b/projects/samskivert/lib/README
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+Required external libraries
+---------------------------
+
+The samskivert code requires the following external Java libraries (JAR
+files) to be placed here in the lib/ directory or in the shared library
+directory specified in the build.xml file (${java.libraries}).
+
+* Jakarta Regular Expression package: 
+  http://jakarta.apache.org/regexp/
+
+* MM MySQL driver:
+  http://mmmysql.sourceforge.net/
+
+* WebMacro web template system:
+  http://www.webmacro.org/
+
+Once the jar files are in place (regardless of what they are named), the
+build system will automatically include them in the compile-time
+classpath.