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+# NCO ecFlow Scripts and Utilities
+
+Scripts and utilities for interacting with ecFlow servers and 
+managing production jobs.
+
+## NCO Maintained Directories
+
+The directories below are maintained by the NCO SPA team. These
+directories and their contents are version controlled in this
+GitHub repo.
+
+- `include/`
+- `scripts/`
+- `versions/`
+
+## ecFlow Package Directories
+
+The directories below are populated by building ecFlow from source.
+These directories *are not* version controlled in this GitHub repo.
+
+`bin/`
+`lib/`
+`share/ecflow/etc/`