diff --git a/bin/build-dist.sh b/bin/build-dist.sh
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index 7530fe54..00000000
--- a/bin/build-dist.sh
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@@ -1,43 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-#
-# $Id: build-dist.sh,v 1.2 2001/08/13 23:24:42 mdb Exp $
-#
-# Builds a distribution archive. This should be run from the top-level
-# project directory and it will place the distribution archive into the
-# directory identified by $DISTDIR.
-
-USAGE="Usage: $0 distname (eg. samskivert-1.4)"
-DISTDIR=dist
-
-if [ -z "$1" ]; then
-    echo $USAGE
-    exit -1
-else
-    TARGET=$1
-fi
-
-# build our excludes file
-cat > .excludes <<EOF
-bin
-CVS
-dist
-lib/*.jar
-code
-docs
-.excludes
-.cvsignore
-EOF
-
-# create our distribution directory
-mkdir /tmp/$TARGET
-
-# temporarily move the distribution files into temp so that we can put
-# them into a properly named directory
-tar --exclude-from=.excludes -cf - * | tar -C /tmp/$TARGET -xf -
-
-# now build the actual archive file
-tar -C /tmp -czf $DISTDIR/$TARGET.tgz $TARGET
-
-# and clean up after ourselves
-rm -rf /tmp/$TARGET
-rm .excludes
diff --git a/bin/runjava b/bin/runjava
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-#!/bin/sh
-#
-# Runs built code
-
-ROOT=`dirname $0`
-ROOT=`cd $ROOT/.. ; pwd`
-
-CLASSPATH="$JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/rt.jar"
-for JAR in $ROOT/dist/lib/*.jar; do
-    CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:$JAR
-done
-CLASSPATH=$ROOT/dist/classes:$ROOT:$CLASSPATH
-export CLASSPATH
-
-eval java $JAVA_ARGS "$@"