diff --git a/Packages/ExternalMemoryStructures/maintainer b/Packages/ExternalMemoryStructures/maintainer
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+Philipp Kramer <kramer@inf.ethz.ch>
diff --git a/Packages/ExternalMemoryStructures/version b/Packages/ExternalMemoryStructures/version
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 0.631 (11 August 2000)
-maintainer: Philipp Kramer <kramer@inf.ethz.ch>