diff --git a/core/io/encodings/binary/authors.txt b/core/io/encodings/binary/authors.txt
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-Daniel Ehrenberg
diff --git a/core/io/encodings/binary/binary-docs.factor b/core/io/encodings/binary/binary-docs.factor
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-USING: help.syntax help.markup ;
-IN: io.encodings.binary
-
-HELP: binary
-{ $class-description "Encoding descriptor for binary I/O." } ;
-
-ARTICLE: "io.encodings.binary" "Binary encoding"
-"Making an encoded stream with the binary encoding is a no-op; streams with this encoding deal with byte-arrays, not strings." 
-{ $subsection binary } ;
-
-ABOUT: "io.encodings.binary"
diff --git a/core/io/encodings/binary/binary.factor b/core/io/encodings/binary/binary.factor
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-! Copyright (C) 2008 Daniel Ehrenberg.
-! See http://factorcode.org/license.txt for BSD license.
-USING: io.encodings kernel ;
-IN: io.encodings.binary
-
-SINGLETON: binary
-M: binary <encoder> drop ;
-M: binary <decoder> drop ;
diff --git a/core/io/encodings/binary/summary.txt b/core/io/encodings/binary/summary.txt
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-Dummy encoding for binary I/O
diff --git a/core/io/encodings/binary/tags.txt b/core/io/encodings/binary/tags.txt
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-text