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> When I looked at the source of the FreeBSD system I noticed the $FreeBSD$
> tag (and $NetBSD$, $OpenBSD$, and $XFree$) which seem to expand relative
> to
> $CVSROOT. How does one create/define own tags like this?

See CVSROOT file `options`; specifically options tag and tagexpand.

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