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+char sample[] = {
+  "===  ALL USERS PLEASE NOTE  ========================\n"
+  "\n"
+  "CAR and CDR now return extra values.\n"
+  "\n"
+  "The function CAR now returns two values.  Since it has to go to the\n"
+  "trouble to figure out if the object is carcdr-able anyway, we figured\n"
+  "you might as well get both halves at once.  For example, the following\n"
+  "code shows how to destructure a cons (SOME-CONS) into its two slots\n"
+  "(THE-CAR and THE-CDR):\n"
+  "\n"
+  "        (MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND (THE-CAR THE-CDR) (CAR SOME-CONS) ...)\n"
+  "\n"
+  "For symmetry with CAR, CDR returns a second value which is the CAR of\n"
+  "the object.  In a related change, the functions MAKE-ARRAY and CONS\n"
+  "have been fixed so they don't allocate any storage except on the\n"
+  "stack.  This should hopefully help people who don't like using the\n"
+  "garbage collector because it cold boots the machine so often.\n"
+};