diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
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+# adapted from
+# https://github.com/greghendershott/travis-racket/blob/master/.travis.yml
+# Thanks Greg!
+
+language: c
+sudo: false
+
+env:
+  global:
+    - RACKET_DIR=~/racket
+  matrix:
+#    - RACKET_VERSION=6.0
+#    - RACKET_VERSION=6.1
+#    - RACKET_VERSION=6.2
+    - RACKET_VERSION=6.3
+    - RACKET_VERSION=6.4
+    - RACKET_VERSION=6.5
+    - RACKET_VERSION=6.6
+    - RACKET_VERSION=6.7
+    - RACKET_VERSION=6.8
+    - RACKET_VERSION=6.9
+    - RACKET_VERSION=6.10
+    - RACKET_VERSION=6.11
+    - RACKET_VERSION=6.12
+    - RACKET_VERSION=HEAD
+
+# You may want to test against certain versions of Racket, without
+# having them count against the overall success/failure.
+matrix:
+  allow_failures:
+    #- env: RACKET_VERSION=HEAD
+  # Fast finish: Overall build result is determined as soon as any of
+  # its rows have failed, or, all of its rows that aren't allowed to
+  # fail have succeeded.
+  fast_finish: true
+
+before_install:
+  - git clone https://github.com/mbutterick/travis-racket.git
+  - cat travis-racket/install-racket.sh | bash # pipe to bash not sh!
+  - export PATH="${RACKET_DIR}/bin:${PATH}" #install-racket.sh can't set for us
+
+script:
+ - cd ..   # Travis did a cd into the dir. Back up, for the next:
+ - travis_retry raco pkg install --deps search-auto https://github.com/mbutterick/br-parser-tools.git?path=br-parser-tools-lib
+ - raco test -p br-parser-tools-lib
+ 
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+# br-parser-tools [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/mbutterick/br-parser-tools.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/mbutterick/br-parser-tools)