diff --git a/README.txt b/README.txt
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@@ -15,4 +15,3 @@ dependencies.
 The tests do a lot of stress testing, and on some machines it is 
 necessary to set the file descriptor limit to greater than 2048
 for the tests to all pass successfully. 
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