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+The "terminal" folder holds the DSDP-TM Terminal Component.
+Its core depends on Eclipse RCP only and can be adapted to eRCP.
+All these CVS modules should be named "org.eclipse.tm.terminal.*".
+See http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm