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+<!--
+
+  Copyright (c) 2001, 2002, 2003 Steven Knight
+
+  Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
+  a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
+  "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
+  without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
+  distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
+  permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
+  the following conditions:
+
+  The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
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+
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+  OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
+  WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
+
+-->
+
+<!--
+
+=head2 The C<Precious> method
+
+The C<Precious> method asks cons not to delete the specified file or
+list of files before building them again.  It is invoked as:
+
+  Precious <files>;
+
+This is especially useful for allowing incremental updates to libraries
+or debug information files which are updated rather than rebuilt anew each
+time.  Cons will still delete the files when the C<-r> flag is specified.
+
+=head2 The C<AfterBuild> method
+
+The C<AfterBuild> method evaluates the specified perl string after
+building the given file or files (or finding that they are up to date).
+The eval will happen once per specified file.  C<AfterBuild> is called
+as follows:
+
+  AfterBuild $env 'foo.o', qq(print "foo.o is up to date!\n");
+
+The perl string is evaluated in the C<script> package, and has access
+to all variables and subroutines defined in the F<Conscript> file in
+which the C<AfterBuild> method is called.
+
+-->
+
+ <para>
+
+   X
+
+ </para>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>The &Precious; Method</title>
+
+   <para>
+
+   X
+
+   </para>
+
+ </section>