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-<p><a href="docs/index.htm">pre alpha documentation (mostly a wish list)</a> (In order to read these on this local system, you must first execute the document build script <code>mkdocs.sh</code>, with <code>bash</code>, <code>sed</code> and <code>pandoc</code>)</p>
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