diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS
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+Thanks to all the following for their contributions to GNU diffutils:
+
+Thomas Bushnell  <tb@becket.net>
+Wayne Davison  <wayned@users.sourceforge.net>
+Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>
+Jay Fenlason <hack@gnu.org>
+John Gilmore  <gnu@cygnus.com>
+Torbjorn Granlund  <tege@swox.com>
+Mike Haertel  <mike@ichips.intel.com>
+Bruno Haible  <haible@ilog.fr>
+Chris Hanson <cph@gnu.org>
+Jim Kingdon  <kingdon@panix.com>
+Tom Lord  <lord@gnu.org>
+David J. MacKenzie  <djm@gnu.org>
+Roland McGrath  <roland@gnu.org>
+Jim Meyering  <meyering@lucent.com>
+Eugene W. Myers  <gene@cs.arizona.edu>
+Randy Smith  <randy@gnu.org>
+Richard Stallman  <rms@gnu.org>
+Leonard H. Tower Jr.  <tower@ai.mit.edu>
+Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
diff --git a/man/Makefile.am b/man/Makefile.am
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+# Automakefile for GNU diffutils man pages
+
+# Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+## it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+## the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+## any later version.
+
+## This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+## but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+## GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+## along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+## Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA
+## 02111-1307, USA.
+
+dist_man_MANS =	cmp.1 diff.1 diff3.1 sdiff.1
+MAINTAINERCLEANFILES = $(dist_man_MANS)
+
+S = $(top_srcdir)/src
+cmp.1: $S/cmp.c
+diff.1: $S/diff.c
+diff3.1: $S/diff3.c
+sdiff.1: $S/sdiff.c
+
+# Depend on configure.ac to get version number changes.
+$(dist_man_MANS): $(top_srcdir)/configure.ac
+	base=`expr $@ : '\(.*\).1'` && \
+	  (echo '[NAME]' && sed 's@/\* *@@; s/-/\\-/; q' $S/$$base.c) | \
+	  $(HELP2MAN) -i - -S '$(PACKAGE) $(VERSION)' ../src/$$base | \
+	  sed 's/^\.B info .*/.B info diff/' >$@