[673b0d8] | 1 | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
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[1fe35e1] | 2 | <!DOCTYPE section [
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[673b0d8] | 3 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
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| 4 | %general-entities;
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| 5 | ]>
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[1fe35e1] | 6 | <section xmlns="http://docbook.org/docbook-ng"
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| 7 | xml:id="ch-system-perl" xreflabel="Perl" role="wrap">
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[6a0e6f3] | 8 | <title>Perl-&perl-version;</title>
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[673b0d8] | 9 | <?dbhtml filename="perl.html"?>
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| 10 |
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| 11 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl"><primary sortas="a-Perl">Perl</primary></indexterm>
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[6370fa6] | 12 |
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[6a0e6f3] | 13 | <section role="package"><title/>
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[5888299] | 14 | <para>The Perl package contains the Practical Extraction and Report Language.</para>
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| 15 |
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[a001133] | 16 | <segmentedlist>
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| 17 | <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
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| 18 | <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
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| 19 | <seglistitem><seg>2.9 SBU</seg><seg>143 MB</seg></seglistitem>
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| 20 | </segmentedlist>
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[3554fa3a] | 21 |
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[a001133] | 22 | <segmentedlist>
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| 23 | <segtitle>Perl installation depends on</segtitle>
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| 24 | <seglistitem><seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils,
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| 25 | Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed</seg></seglistitem>
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| 26 | </segmentedlist>
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[1fe35e1] | 27 | </section>
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[5888299] | 28 |
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[1fe35e1] | 29 | <section role="installation">
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[6a0e6f3] | 30 | <title>Installation of Perl</title>
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[73aedd1d] | 31 |
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[4248b0e] | 32 | <para>If you want full control over the way Perl is set up, you can run the
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| 33 | interactive <command>Configure</command> script and hand-pick the way this
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[673b0d8] | 34 | package is built. If you think you can live with the (sensible)
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[4248b0e] | 35 | defaults it auto-detects, then prepare Perl for compilation with:</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 36 |
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[5a4b3da] | 37 | <screen><userinput>./configure.gnu --prefix=/usr -Dpager="/bin/less -isR"</userinput></screen>
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[73aedd1d] | 38 |
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[bcd0ce7] | 39 | <para>The meaning of the configure option:</para>
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[05073f6] | 40 |
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[df8334f] | 41 | <variablelist>
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| 42 | <varlistentry>
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[8ad7980] | 43 | <term><parameter>-Dpager="/bin/less -isR"</parameter></term>
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| 44 | <listitem><para>This corrects an error in the <command>perldoc</command> code with the invocation
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| 45 | of the <command>less</command> program.</para></listitem>
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[df8334f] | 46 | </varlistentry>
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| 47 | </variablelist>
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[5a4b3da] | 48 |
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[73aedd1d] | 49 | <para>Compile the package:</para>
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| 50 |
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| 51 | <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
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| 52 |
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[8a5f906] | 53 | <para>If you wish to run the test suite, you first have to create a basic
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| 54 | <filename>/etc/hosts</filename> file, which is needed by a couple of tests to
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| 55 | resolve the name <emphasis>localhost</emphasis>:</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 56 |
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| 57 | <screen><userinput>echo "127.0.0.1 localhost $(hostname)" > /etc/hosts</userinput></screen>
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| 58 |
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| 59 | <para>Now run the tests, if you wish:</para>
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| 60 |
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| 61 | <screen><userinput>make test</userinput></screen>
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| 62 |
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[673b0d8] | 63 | <para>Finally, install the package:</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 64 |
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| 65 | <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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| 66 |
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[1fe35e1] | 67 | </section>
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[6370fa6] | 68 |
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[5888299] | 69 |
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[6a0e6f3] | 70 | <section xml:id="contents-perl" role="content"><title>Contents of Perl</title>
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[673b0d8] | 71 |
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[c6cb3aa] | 72 | <segmentedlist>
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| 73 | <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
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| 74 | <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
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| 75 | <seglistitem><seg>a2p, c2ph, dprofpp, enc2xs,
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[673b0d8] | 76 | find2perl, h2ph, h2xs, libnetcfg, perl, perl&perl-version; (link to perl),
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| 77 | perlbug, perlcc, perldoc, perlivp, piconv, pl2pm, pod2html, pod2latex, pod2man,
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| 78 | pod2text, pod2usage, podchecker, podselect, psed (link to s2p), pstruct (link
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[c6cb3aa] | 79 | to c2ph), s2p, splain and xsubpp</seg>
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| 80 | <seg>(too many to name)</seg></seglistitem>
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| 81 | </segmentedlist>
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[673b0d8] | 82 |
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[c6cb3aa] | 83 | <variablelist><title>Short descriptions</title>
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[673b0d8] | 84 |
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[1fe35e1] | 85 | <varlistentry xml:id="a2p">
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[b8a819f] | 86 | <term><command>a2p</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 87 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 88 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl a2p"><primary sortas="b-a2p">a2p</primary></indexterm>
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[8ad7980] | 89 | <para>translates awk to Perl.</para>
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[c6cb3aa] | 90 | </listitem>
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| 91 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 92 |
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[1fe35e1] | 93 | <varlistentry xml:id="c2ph">
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[b8a819f] | 94 | <term><command>c2ph</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 95 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 96 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl c2ph"><primary sortas="b-c2ph">c2ph</primary></indexterm>
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[8ad7980] | 97 | <para>dumps C structures as generated from <quote>cc -g -S</quote> stabs.</para>
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[c6cb3aa] | 98 | </listitem>
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| 99 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 100 |
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[1fe35e1] | 101 | <varlistentry xml:id="dprofpp">
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[b8a819f] | 102 | <term><command>dprofpp</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 103 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 104 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl dprofpp"><primary sortas="b-dprofpp">dprofpp</primary></indexterm>
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[8ad7980] | 105 | <para>displays Perl profile data.</para>
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[c6cb3aa] | 106 | </listitem>
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| 107 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 108 |
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[1fe35e1] | 109 | <varlistentry xml:id="en2cxs">
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[b8a819f] | 110 | <term><command>en2cxs</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 111 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 112 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl en2cxs"><primary sortas="b-en2cxs">en2cxs</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 113 | <para>builds a Perl extension for the Encode module,
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[673b0d8] | 114 | from either Unicode Character Mappings or Tcl Encoding Files.</para>
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[c6cb3aa] | 115 | </listitem>
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| 116 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 117 |
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[1fe35e1] | 118 | <varlistentry xml:id="find2perl">
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[b8a819f] | 119 | <term><command>find2perl</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 120 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 121 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl find2perl"><primary sortas="b-find2perl">find2perl</primary></indexterm>
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[8ad7980] | 122 | <para>translates find commands to Perl.</para>
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[c6cb3aa] | 123 | </listitem>
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| 124 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 125 |
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[1fe35e1] | 126 | <varlistentry xml:id="h2ph">
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[b8a819f] | 127 | <term><command>h2ph</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 128 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 129 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl h2ph"><primary sortas="b-h2ph">h2ph</primary></indexterm>
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[8ad7980] | 130 | <para>converts <filename class="extension">.h</filename> C header files to
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| 131 | <filename class="extension">.ph</filename> Perl header files.</para>
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[c6cb3aa] | 132 | </listitem>
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| 133 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 134 |
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[1fe35e1] | 135 | <varlistentry xml:id="h2xs">
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[b8a819f] | 136 | <term><command>h2xs</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 137 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 138 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl h2xs"><primary sortas="b-h2xs">h2xs</primary></indexterm>
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[8ad7980] | 139 | <para>converts <filename class="extension">.h</filename> C header files to Perl extensions.</para>
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[c6cb3aa] | 140 | </listitem>
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| 141 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 142 |
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[1fe35e1] | 143 | <varlistentry xml:id="libnetcfg">
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[b8a819f] | 144 | <term><command>libnetcfg</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 145 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 146 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl libnetcfg"><primary sortas="b-libnetcfg">libnetcfg</primary></indexterm>
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[8ad7980] | 147 | <para>can be used to configure the <filename class="libraryfile">libnet</filename>.</para>
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[c6cb3aa] | 148 | </listitem>
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| 149 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 150 |
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[1fe35e1] | 151 | <varlistentry xml:id="perl">
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[b8a819f] | 152 | <term><command>perl</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 153 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 154 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perl"><primary sortas="b-perl">perl</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 155 | <para>combines some of the best features of C, sed,
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[673b0d8] | 156 | awk and sh into a single swiss-army language.</para>
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[c6cb3aa] | 157 | </listitem>
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| 158 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 159 |
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[1fe35e1] | 160 | <varlistentry xml:id="perlbug">
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[b8a819f] | 161 | <term><command>perlbug</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 162 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 163 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perlbug"><primary sortas="b-perlbug">perlbug</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 164 | <para>is used to generate bug reports about
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[673b0d8] | 165 | Perl or the modules that come with it, and mail them.</para>
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[c6cb3aa] | 166 | </listitem>
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| 167 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 168 |
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[1fe35e1] | 169 | <varlistentry xml:id="perlcc">
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[b8a819f] | 170 | <term><command>perlcc</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 171 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 172 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perlcc"><primary sortas="b-perlcc">perlcc</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 173 | <para>generates executables from Perl programs.</para>
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| 174 | </listitem>
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| 175 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 176 |
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[1fe35e1] | 177 | <varlistentry xml:id="perldoc">
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[b8a819f] | 178 | <term><command>perldoc</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 179 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 180 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perldoc"><primary sortas="b-perldoc">perldoc</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 181 | <para>displays a piece of documentation in pod
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[8ad7980] | 182 | format that is embedded in the Perl installation tree or in a Perl script.</para>
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[c6cb3aa] | 183 | </listitem>
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| 184 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 185 |
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[1fe35e1] | 186 | <varlistentry xml:id="perlivp">
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[b8a819f] | 187 | <term><command>perlivp</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 188 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 189 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl perlivp"><primary sortas="b-perlivp">perlivp</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 190 | <para>is the Perl Installation Verification Procedure. It can be used to verify that
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| 191 | Perl and its libraries have been installed correctly.</para>
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| 192 | </listitem>
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| 193 | </varlistentry>
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| 194 |
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[1fe35e1] | 195 | <varlistentry xml:id="piconv">
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[b8a819f] | 196 | <term><command>piconv</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 197 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 198 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl piconv"><primary sortas="b-piconv">piconv</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 199 | <para>is a Perl version of the character encoding
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[673b0d8] | 200 | converter <command>iconv</command>.</para>
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[c6cb3aa] | 201 | </listitem>
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| 202 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 203 |
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[1fe35e1] | 204 | <varlistentry xml:id="pl2pm">
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[b8a819f] | 205 | <term><command>pl2pm</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 206 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 207 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pl2pm"><primary sortas="b-pl2pm">pl2pm</primary></indexterm>
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[8ad7980] | 208 | <para>is a rough tool for converting Perl4 <filename class="extension">.pl</filename>
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| 209 | files to Perl5 <filename class="extension">.pm</filename> modules.</para>
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[c6cb3aa] | 210 | </listitem>
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| 211 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 212 |
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[1fe35e1] | 213 | <varlistentry xml:id="pod2html">
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[b8a819f] | 214 | <term><command>pod2html</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 215 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 216 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2html"><primary sortas="b-pod2html">pod2html</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 217 | <para>converts files from pod format to HTML format.</para>
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| 218 | </listitem>
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| 219 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 220 |
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[1fe35e1] | 221 | <varlistentry xml:id="pod2latex">
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[b8a819f] | 222 | <term><command>pod2latex</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 223 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 224 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2latex"><primary sortas="b-pod2latex">pod2latex</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 225 | <para>converts files from pod format to LaTeX format.</para>
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| 226 | </listitem>
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| 227 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 228 |
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[1fe35e1] | 229 | <varlistentry xml:id="pod2man">
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[b8a819f] | 230 | <term><command>pod2man</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 231 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 232 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2man"><primary sortas="b-pod2man">pod2man</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 233 | <para>converts pod data to formatted *roff input.</para>
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| 234 | </listitem>
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| 235 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 236 |
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[1fe35e1] | 237 | <varlistentry xml:id="pod2text">
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[b8a819f] | 238 | <term><command>pod2text</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 239 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 240 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2text"><primary sortas="b-pod2text">pod2text</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 241 | <para>converts pod data to formatted ASCII text.</para>
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| 242 | </listitem>
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| 243 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 244 |
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[1fe35e1] | 245 | <varlistentry xml:id="pod2usage">
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[b8a819f] | 246 | <term><command>pod2usage</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 247 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 248 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pod2usage"><primary sortas="b-pod2usage">pod2usage</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 249 | <para>prints usage messages from embedded pod docs in files.</para>
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| 250 | </listitem>
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| 251 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 252 |
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[1fe35e1] | 253 | <varlistentry xml:id="podchecker">
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[b8a819f] | 254 | <term><command>podchecker</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 255 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 256 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl podchecker"><primary sortas="b-podchecker">podchecker</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 257 | <para>checks the syntax of pod format documentation files.</para>
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| 258 | </listitem>
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| 259 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 260 |
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[1fe35e1] | 261 | <varlistentry xml:id="podselect">
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[b8a819f] | 262 | <term><command>podselect</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 263 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 264 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl podselect"><primary sortas="b-podselect">podselect</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 265 | <para>displays selected sections of pod documentation.</para>
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| 266 | </listitem>
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| 267 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 268 |
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[1fe35e1] | 269 | <varlistentry xml:id="psed">
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[b8a819f] | 270 | <term><command>psed</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 271 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 272 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl psed"><primary sortas="b-psed">psed</primary></indexterm>
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[8ad7980] | 273 | <para>is a Perl version of the stream editor <command>sed</command>.</para>
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[c6cb3aa] | 274 | </listitem>
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| 275 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 276 |
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[1fe35e1] | 277 | <varlistentry xml:id="pstruct">
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[b8a819f] | 278 | <term><command>pstruct</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 279 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 280 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl pstruct"><primary sortas="b-pstruct">pstruct</primary></indexterm>
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[8ad7980] | 281 | <para>dumps C structures as generated from <quote>cc -g -S</quote> stabs.</para>
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[c6cb3aa] | 282 | </listitem>
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| 283 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 284 |
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[1fe35e1] | 285 | <varlistentry xml:id="s2p">
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[b8a819f] | 286 | <term><command>s2p</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 287 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 288 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl s2p"><primary sortas="b-s2p">s2p</primary></indexterm>
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[8ad7980] | 289 | <para>translates sed to Perl.</para>
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[c6cb3aa] | 290 | </listitem>
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| 291 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 292 |
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[1fe35e1] | 293 | <varlistentry xml:id="splain">
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[b8a819f] | 294 | <term><command>splain</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 295 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 296 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl splain"><primary sortas="b-splain">splain</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 297 | <para>is used to force verbose warning
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[8ad7980] | 298 | diagnostics in Perl.</para>
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[c6cb3aa] | 299 | </listitem>
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| 300 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 301 |
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[1fe35e1] | 302 | <varlistentry xml:id="xsubpp">
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[b8a819f] | 303 | <term><command>xsubpp</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 304 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 305 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-perl xsubpp"><primary sortas="b-xsubpp">xsubpp</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 306 | <para>converts Perl XS code into C code.</para>
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| 307 | </listitem>
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| 308 | </varlistentry>
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| 309 | </variablelist>
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[673b0d8] | 310 |
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[1fe35e1] | 311 | </section>
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[1fe35e1] | 313 | </section>
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