This is the Debian GNU/Linux prepackaged version of V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms, formatted as an info file in package vera, and for The DICT Development Group's client/server software in package dict-vera. V.E.R.A. was prepared by Oliver Heidelbach, . The DICT formatting software was written by Rickard E. Faith (faith@acm.org). This package was constructed by Robert D. Hilliard from sources obtained from ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/vera and ftp.dict.org/pub/dict. V.E.R.A is distributed with the following copyright notice and license: This is a special GNU edition of V.E.R.A., a list dealing with computational acronyms. Copyright (C) 1993/2001 Oliver Heidelbach Please send corrections to Oliver Heidelbach . Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU FDL". Within the above restrictions the distribution of this document is explicitly encouraged and I hope you'll find it of some value. This dictionary has nothing to do with Systems Science Inc. or its products.