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>     Plain text, for pre-installation information
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>     <ACRONYM
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>     PDF or Postscript, for printing
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>     man pages, for quick reference.
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  Additionally, a number of plain-text <TT
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  be found throughout the <SPAN
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  documenting various implementation issues.
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>  <ACRONYM
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  standard distribution and are installed by default.  PDF and
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   essentially a language for describing other languages.  In what
   follows, the terms DocBook and <ACRONYM
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>  <SPAN
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