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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
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| 3 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
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| 4 | %general-entities;
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| 5 | ]>
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[a001133] | 6 | <sect1 id="ch-system-inetutils" xreflabel="Inetutils" role="wrap">
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[673b0d8] | 7 | <title>Inetutils-&inetutils-version;</title>
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| 8 | <?dbhtml filename="inetutils.html"?>
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| 9 |
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| 10 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-inetutils"><primary sortas="a-Inetutils">Inetutils</primary></indexterm>
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[0b6cb04] | 11 |
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[a001133] | 12 | <sect2 role="package"><title/>
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[5888299] | 13 | <para>The Inetutils package contains programs for basic networking.</para>
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| 14 |
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[a001133] | 15 | <segmentedlist>
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| 16 | <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
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| 17 | <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
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| 18 | <seglistitem><seg>0.2 SBU</seg><seg>11 MB</seg></seglistitem>
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| 19 | </segmentedlist>
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[673b0d8] | 20 |
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[a001133] | 21 | <segmentedlist>
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| 22 | <segtitle>Inetutils installation depends on</segtitle>
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| 23 | <seglistitem><seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils,
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| 24 | Diffutils, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses, Sed</seg></seglistitem>
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| 25 | </segmentedlist>
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| 26 | </sect2>
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[cd8e54e] | 27 |
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[a001133] | 28 | <sect2 role="installation">
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[73aedd1d] | 29 | <title>Installation of Inetutils</title>
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| 30 |
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[9dfc02f] | 31 | <para>Inetutils has issues with the Linux 2.6 kernel series - fix these isues
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| 32 | by applying the following patch:</para>
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| 33 |
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[c8ba565] | 34 | <screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../inetutils-&inetutils-version;-kernel-headers-1.patch</userinput></screen>
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[9dfc02f] | 35 |
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[2ad19ed] | 36 | <para>We are not going to install all the programs that come with Inetutils.
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| 37 | However, the Inetutils build system will insist on installing all the man
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| 38 | pages anyway. The following patch will correct this situation:</para>
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| 39 |
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[2be5334] | 40 | <screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../inetutils-&inetutils-version;-no-server-man-pages-1.patch</userinput></screen>
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[2ad19ed] | 41 |
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| 42 | <para>Now prepare Inetutils for compilation:</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 43 |
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[f4993cf] | 44 | <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/sbin \
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[673b0d8] | 45 | --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var \
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| 46 | --disable-logger --disable-syslogd \
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| 47 | --disable-whois --disable-servers</userinput></screen>
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[73aedd1d] | 48 |
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| 49 | <para>The meaning of the configure options:</para>
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| 50 |
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| 51 | <itemizedlist>
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| 52 | <listitem><para><userinput>--disable-logger</userinput>: This option
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[f4993cf] | 53 | prevents Inetutils from installing the logger program, which is used by
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[73aedd1d] | 54 | scripts to pass messages to the System Log Daemon. We do not install it
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| 55 | because Util-linux installs a better version later.</para></listitem>
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| 56 |
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[f4993cf] | 57 | <listitem><para><userinput>--disable-syslogd</userinput>: This option
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| 58 | prevents Inetutils from installing the System Log Daemon, which is
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| 59 | installed with the Sysklogd package.</para></listitem>
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| 60 |
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[73aedd1d] | 61 | <listitem><para><userinput>--disable-whois</userinput>: This option disables
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[f4993cf] | 62 | the building of the Inetutils whois client, which is woefully out of date.
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[73aedd1d] | 63 | Instructions for a better whois client are in the BLFS book.</para></listitem>
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| 64 |
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| 65 | <listitem><para><userinput>--disable-servers</userinput>: This disables the
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| 66 | installation of the various network servers included as part of the Inetutils
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| 67 | package. These servers are deemed not appropriate in a basic LFS system. Some
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| 68 | are insecure by nature and are only considered safe on trusted networks. More
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| 69 | information can be found at
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| 70 | <ulink url="&blfs-root;view/stable/basicnet/inetutils.html"/>. Note that better
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| 71 | replacements are available for many of these servers.</para></listitem>
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| 72 | </itemizedlist>
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| 73 |
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| 74 | <para>Compile the package:</para>
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| 75 |
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| 76 | <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
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| 77 |
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| 78 | <para>Install it:</para>
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| 79 |
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| 80 | <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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| 81 |
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[673b0d8] | 82 | <para>Move the <command>ping</command> program to its FHS-compliant
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[4248b0e] | 83 | place:</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 84 |
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| 85 | <screen><userinput>mv /usr/bin/ping /bin</userinput></screen>
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| 86 |
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| 87 | </sect2>
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[0b6cb04] | 88 |
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[5888299] | 89 |
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[c6cb3aa] | 90 | <sect2 id="contents-inetutils" role="content"><title>Contents of Inetutils</title>
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[673b0d8] | 91 |
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[c6cb3aa] | 92 | <segmentedlist>
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| 93 | <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
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| 94 | <seglistitem><seg>ftp, ping, rcp, rlogin, rsh, talk, telnet and tftp</seg></seglistitem>
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| 95 | </segmentedlist>
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[673b0d8] | 96 |
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[c6cb3aa] | 97 | <variablelist><title>Short descriptions</title>
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[673b0d8] | 98 |
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[c6cb3aa] | 99 | <varlistentry>
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| 100 | <term id="ftp"><command>ftp</command></term>
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| 101 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 102 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-inetutils ftp"><primary sortas="b-ftp">ftp</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 103 | <para>is the ARPANET file transfer program.</para>
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| 104 | </listitem>
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| 105 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 106 |
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[c6cb3aa] | 107 | <varlistentry>
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| 108 | <term id="ping"><command>ping</command></term>
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| 109 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 110 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-inetutils ping"><primary sortas="b-ping">ping</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 111 | <para>sends echo-request packets and reports how long the replies take.</para>
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| 112 | </listitem>
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| 113 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 114 |
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[c6cb3aa] | 115 | <varlistentry>
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| 116 | <term id="rcp"><command>rcp</command></term>
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| 117 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 118 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-inetutils rcp"><primary sortas="b-rcp">rcp</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 119 | <para>does remote file copy.</para>
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| 120 | </listitem>
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| 121 | </varlistentry>
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[73aedd1d] | 122 |
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[c6cb3aa] | 123 | <varlistentry>
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| 124 | <term id="rlogin"><command>rlogin</command></term>
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| 125 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 126 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-inetutils rlogin"><primary sortas="b-rlogin">rlogin</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 127 | <para>does remote login.</para>
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| 128 | </listitem>
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| 129 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 130 |
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[c6cb3aa] | 131 | <varlistentry>
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| 132 | <term id="rsh"><command>rsh</command></term>
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| 133 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 134 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-inetutils rsh"><primary sortas="b-rsh">rsh</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 135 | <para>runs a remote shell.</para>
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| 136 | </listitem>
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| 137 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 138 |
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[c6cb3aa] | 139 | <varlistentry>
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| 140 | <term id="talk"><command>talk</command></term>
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| 141 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 142 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-inetutils talk"><primary sortas="b-talk">talk</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 143 | <para>is used to chat up another user.</para>
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| 144 | </listitem>
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| 145 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 146 |
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[c6cb3aa] | 147 | <varlistentry>
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| 148 | <term id="telnet"><command>telnet</command></term>
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| 149 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 150 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-inetutils telnet"><primary sortas="b-telnet">telnet</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 151 | <para>is an interface to the TELNET protocol.</para>
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| 152 | </listitem>
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| 153 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 154 |
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[c6cb3aa] | 155 | <varlistentry>
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| 156 | <term id="tftp"><command>tftp</command></term>
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| 157 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 158 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-inetutils tftp"><primary sortas="b-tftp">tftp</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 159 | <para>is a trivial file transfer program.</para>
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| 160 | </listitem>
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| 161 | </varlistentry>
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| 162 | </variablelist>
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[673b0d8] | 163 |
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| 164 | </sect2>
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| 165 |
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| 166 | </sect1>
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