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+                       showkey
+       by Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
+
+All this program does is read keystrokes and spit them back at you in a simple,
+printable form.
+
+This is one of these silly little utilities that you never think you'll need
+until some unexpected situation pops up and you have to have it.  Then you
+get to be mugged by the details of tty-interface code, yippee.  Never again!
+
+Runs under System V or Linux.  Could be POSIXified almost trivially.
+