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+**TEACL is the YAAPS fork of the TECOC editor**
+
+*The purpose of this fork is to rewrite TECO*
+*as the back end of a collaborative text editor*
+*implemented as an Activity Pub service*
+
+TEACL - Text Editing And Collaboration Language
+===============================================
+
+TEACL is a fork of TECOC. TECOC because I need a character based text editor. 
+Fork because my use runs contrary to the stated purpose of the main repository
+
+TEACL is not intended for human consumption. It intended to be generated in a specialized Activity Pub client for embedding in the object property of client to server activities with the media type "application/x-teacl"
+
+The remainder of this document is about TECOC
+
+----------------------------------------------
 
 TECOC - TECO Editor
 ===================