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| 4 |   <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
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| 5 |   %general-entities;
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| 6 | ]>
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| 7 | 
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| 8 | <sect1 id="ch-system-kbd" role="wrap">
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| 9 |   <?dbhtml filename="kbd.html"?>
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| 10 | 
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| 11 |   <title>Kbd-&kbd-version;</title>
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| 12 | 
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| 13 |   <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd">
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| 14 |     <primary sortas="a-Kbd">Kbd</primary>
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| 15 |   </indexterm>
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| 16 | 
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| 17 |   <sect2 role="package">
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| 18 |     <title/>
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| 19 | 
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| 20 |     <para>The Kbd package contains key-table files and keyboard
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| 21 |     utilities.</para>
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| 22 | 
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| 23 |     <segmentedlist>
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| 24 |       <segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle>
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| 25 | 
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| 26 |       <seglistitem>
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| 27 |         <seg>Bash, Binutils, Bison, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Gettext,
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| 28 |         Glibc, Grep, Gzip, M4, Make, and Sed</seg>
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| 29 |       </seglistitem>
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| 30 |     </segmentedlist>
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| 31 | 
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| 32 |   </sect2>
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| 33 | 
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| 34 |   <sect2 role="installation">
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| 35 |     <title>Installation of Kbd</title>
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| 36 | 
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| 37 |     <para os="p1">The following patch fixes build issues with GCC 4.x:</para>
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| 38 | 
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| 39 | <screen os="p2"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&kbd-gcc4_fixes-patch;</userinput></screen>
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| 40 | 
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| 41 |     <para os="a">Prepare Kbd for compilation:</para>
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| 42 | 
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| 43 | <screen os="b"><userinput>./configure</userinput></screen>
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| 44 | 
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| 45 |     <para os="c">Compile the package:</para>
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| 46 | 
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| 47 | <screen os="d"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
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| 48 | 
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| 49 |     <para os="e">Install the package:</para>
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| 50 | 
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| 51 | <screen os="f"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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| 52 | 
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| 53 |   </sect2>
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| 54 | 
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| 55 |   <sect2 id="contents-kbd" role="content">
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| 56 |     <title>Contents of Kbd</title>
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| 57 | 
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| 58 |     <segmentedlist>
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| 59 |       <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
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| 60 | 
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| 61 |       <seglistitem>
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| 62 |         <seg>chvt, deallocvt, dumpkeys, fgconsole, getkeycodes, getunimap,
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| 63 |         kbd_mode, kbdrate, loadkeys, loadunimap, mapscrn, openvt, psfaddtable
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| 64 |         (link to psfxtable), psfgettable (link to psfxtable), psfstriptable
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| 65 |         (link to psfxtable), psfxtable, resizecons, setfont, setkeycodes,
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| 66 |         setleds, setlogcons, setmetamode, setvesablank, showconsolefont,
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| 67 |         showkey, unicode_start, and unicode_stop</seg>
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| 68 |       </seglistitem>
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| 69 |     </segmentedlist>
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| 70 | 
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| 71 |     <variablelist>
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| 72 |       <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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| 73 |       <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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| 74 |       <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
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| 75 | 
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| 76 |       <varlistentry id="chvt">
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| 77 |         <term><command>chvt</command></term>
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| 78 |         <listitem>
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| 79 |           <para>Changes the foreground virtual terminal</para>
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| 80 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd chvt">
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| 81 |             <primary sortas="b-chvt">chvt</primary>
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| 82 |           </indexterm>
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| 83 |         </listitem>
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| 84 |       </varlistentry>
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| 85 | 
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| 86 |       <varlistentry id="deallocvt">
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| 87 |         <term><command>deallocvt</command></term>
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| 88 |         <listitem>
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| 89 |           <para>Deallocates unused virtual terminals</para>
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| 90 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd deallocvt">
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| 91 |             <primary sortas="b-deallocvt">deallocvt</primary>
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| 92 |           </indexterm>
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| 93 |         </listitem>
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| 94 |       </varlistentry>
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| 95 | 
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| 96 |       <varlistentry id="dumpkeys">
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| 97 |         <term><command>dumpkeys</command></term>
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| 98 |         <listitem>
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| 99 |           <para>Dumps the keyboard translation tables</para>
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| 100 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd dumpkeys">
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| 101 |             <primary sortas="b-dumpkeys">dumpkeys</primary>
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| 102 |           </indexterm>
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| 103 |         </listitem>
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| 104 |       </varlistentry>
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| 105 | 
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| 106 |       <varlistentry id="fgconsole">
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| 107 |         <term><command>fgconsole</command></term>
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| 108 |         <listitem>
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| 109 |           <para>Prints the number of the active virtual terminal</para>
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| 110 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd fgconsole">
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| 111 |             <primary sortas="b-fgconsole">fgconsole</primary>
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| 112 |           </indexterm>
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| 113 |         </listitem>
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| 114 |       </varlistentry>
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| 115 | 
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| 116 |       <varlistentry id="getkeycodes">
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| 117 |         <term><command>getkeycodes</command></term>
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| 118 |         <listitem>
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| 119 |           <para>Prints the kernel scancode-to-keycode mapping table</para>
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| 120 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd getkeycodes">
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| 121 |             <primary sortas="b-getkeycodes">getkeycodes</primary>
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| 122 |           </indexterm>
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| 123 |         </listitem>
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| 124 |       </varlistentry>
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| 125 | 
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| 126 |       <varlistentry id="getunimap">
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| 127 |         <term><command>getunimap</command></term>
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| 128 |         <listitem>
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| 129 |           <para>Prints the currently used unicode-to-font mapping table</para>
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| 130 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd getunimap">
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| 131 |             <primary sortas="b-getunimap">getunimap</primary>
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| 132 |           </indexterm>
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| 133 |         </listitem>
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| 134 |       </varlistentry>
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| 135 | 
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| 136 |       <varlistentry id="kbd_mode">
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| 137 |         <term><command>kbd_mode</command></term>
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| 138 |         <listitem>
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| 139 |           <para>Reports or sets the keyboard mode</para>
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| 140 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd kbd_mode">
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| 141 |             <primary sortas="b-kbd_mode">kbd_mode</primary>
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| 142 |           </indexterm>
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| 143 |         </listitem>
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| 144 |       </varlistentry>
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| 145 | 
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| 146 |       <varlistentry id="kbdrate">
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| 147 |         <term><command>kbdrate</command></term>
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| 148 |         <listitem>
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| 149 |           <para>Sets the keyboard repeat and delay rates</para>
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| 150 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd kbdrate">
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| 151 |             <primary sortas="b-kbdrate">kbdrate</primary>
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| 152 |           </indexterm>
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| 153 |         </listitem>
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| 154 |       </varlistentry>
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| 155 | 
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| 156 |       <varlistentry id="loadkeys">
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| 157 |         <term><command>loadkeys</command></term>
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| 158 |         <listitem>
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| 159 |           <para>Loads the keyboard translation tables</para>
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| 160 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd loadkeys">
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| 161 |             <primary sortas="b-loadkeys">loadkeys</primary>
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| 162 |           </indexterm>
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| 163 |         </listitem>
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| 164 |       </varlistentry>
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| 165 | 
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| 166 |       <varlistentry id="loadunimap">
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| 167 |         <term><command>loadunimap</command></term>
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| 168 |         <listitem>
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| 169 |           <para>Loads the kernel unicode-to-font mapping table</para>
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| 170 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd loadunimap">
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| 171 |             <primary sortas="b-loadunimap">loadunimap</primary>
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| 172 |           </indexterm>
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| 173 |         </listitem>
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| 174 |       </varlistentry>
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| 175 | 
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| 176 |       <varlistentry id="mapscrn">
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| 177 |         <term><command>mapscrn</command></term>
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| 178 |         <listitem>
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| 179 |           <para>An obsolete program that used to load a user-defined output
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| 180 |           character mapping table into the console driver; this is now done
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| 181 |           by <command>setfont</command></para>
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| 182 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd mapscrn">
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| 183 |             <primary sortas="b-mapscrn">mapscrn</primary>
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| 184 |           </indexterm>
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| 185 |         </listitem>
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| 186 |       </varlistentry>
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| 187 | 
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| 188 |       <varlistentry id="openvt">
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| 189 |         <term><command>openvt</command></term>
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| 190 |         <listitem>
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| 191 |           <para>Starts a program on a new virtual terminal (VT)</para>
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| 192 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd openvt">
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| 193 |             <primary sortas="b-openvt">openvt</primary>
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| 194 |           </indexterm>
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| 195 |         </listitem>
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| 196 |       </varlistentry>
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| 197 | 
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| 198 |       <varlistentry id="psfaddtable">
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| 199 |         <term><command>psfaddtable</command></term>
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| 200 |         <listitem>
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| 201 |           <para>A link to <command>psfxtable</command></para>
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| 202 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd psfaddtable">
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| 203 |             <primary sortas="b-psfaddtable">psfaddtable</primary>
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| 204 |           </indexterm>
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| 205 |         </listitem>
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| 206 |       </varlistentry>
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| 207 | 
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| 208 |       <varlistentry id="psfgettable">
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| 209 |         <term><command>psfgettable</command></term>
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| 210 |         <listitem>
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| 211 |           <para>A link to <command>psfxtable</command></para>
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| 212 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd psfgettable">
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| 213 |             <primary sortas="b-psfgettable">psfgettable</primary>
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| 214 |           </indexterm>
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| 215 |         </listitem>
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| 216 |       </varlistentry>
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| 217 | 
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| 218 |       <varlistentry id="psfstriptable">
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| 219 |         <term><command>psfstriptable</command></term>
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| 220 |         <listitem>
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| 221 |           <para>A link to <command>psfxtable</command></para>
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| 222 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd psfstriptable">
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| 223 |             <primary sortas="b-psfstriptable">psfstriptable</primary>
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| 224 |           </indexterm>
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| 225 |         </listitem>
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| 226 |       </varlistentry>
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| 227 | 
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| 228 |       <varlistentry id="psfxtable">
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| 229 |         <term><command>psfxtable</command></term>
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| 230 |         <listitem>
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| 231 |           <para>Handle Unicode character tables for console fonts</para>
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| 232 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd psfxtable">
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| 233 |             <primary sortas="b-psfxtable">psfxtable</primary>
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| 234 |           </indexterm>
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| 235 |         </listitem>
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| 236 |       </varlistentry>
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| 237 | 
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| 238 |       <varlistentry id="resizecons">
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| 239 |         <term><command>resizecons</command></term>
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| 240 |         <listitem>
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| 241 |           <para>Changes the kernel idea of the console size</para>
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| 242 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd resizecons">
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| 243 |             <primary sortas="b-resizecons">resizecons</primary>
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| 244 |           </indexterm>
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| 245 |         </listitem>
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| 246 |       </varlistentry>
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| 247 | 
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| 248 |       <varlistentry id="setfont">
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| 249 |         <term><command>setfont</command></term>
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| 250 |         <listitem>
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| 251 |           <para>Changes the Enhanced Graphic Adapter (EGA) and Video Graphics
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| 252 |           Array (VGA) fonts on the console</para>
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| 253 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd setfont">
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| 254 |             <primary sortas="b-setfont">setfont</primary>
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| 255 |           </indexterm>
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| 256 |         </listitem>
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| 257 |       </varlistentry>
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| 258 | 
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| 259 |       <varlistentry id="setkeycodes">
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| 260 |         <term><command>setkeycodes</command></term>
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| 261 |         <listitem>
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| 262 |           <para>Loads kernel scancode-to-keycode mapping table entries; this is
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| 263 |           useful if there are unusual keys on the keyboard</para>
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| 264 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd setkeycodes">
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| 265 |             <primary sortas="b-setkeycodes">setkeycodes</primary>
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| 266 |           </indexterm>
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| 267 |         </listitem>
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| 268 |       </varlistentry>
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| 269 | 
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| 270 |       <varlistentry id="setleds">
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| 271 |         <term><command>setleds</command></term>
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| 272 |         <listitem>
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| 273 |           <para>Sets the keyboard flags and Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs)</para>
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| 274 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd setleds">
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| 275 |             <primary sortas="b-setleds">setleds</primary>
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| 276 |           </indexterm>
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| 277 |         </listitem>
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| 278 |       </varlistentry>
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| 279 | 
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| 280 |       <varlistentry id="setlogcons">
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| 281 |         <term><command>setlogcons</command></term>
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| 282 |         <listitem>
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| 283 |           <para>Sends kernel messages to the console</para>
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| 284 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd setlogcons">
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| 285 |             <primary sortas="b-setlogcons">setlogcons</primary>
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| 286 |           </indexterm>
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| 287 |         </listitem>
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| 288 |       </varlistentry>
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| 289 | 
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| 290 |       <varlistentry id="setmetamode">
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| 291 |         <term><command>setmetamode</command></term>
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| 292 |         <listitem>
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| 293 |           <para>Defines the keyboard meta-key handling</para>
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| 294 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd setmetamode">
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| 295 |             <primary sortas="b-setmetamode">setmetamode</primary>
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| 296 |           </indexterm>
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| 297 |         </listitem>
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| 298 |       </varlistentry>
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| 299 | 
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| 300 |       <varlistentry id="setvesablank">
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| 301 |         <term><command>setvesablank</command></term>
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| 302 |         <listitem>
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| 303 |           <para>Lets the user adjust the built-in hardware screensaver (a blank
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| 304 |           screen)</para>
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| 305 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd setvesablank">
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| 306 |             <primary sortas="b-setvesablank">setvesablank</primary>
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| 307 |           </indexterm>
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| 308 |         </listitem>
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| 309 |       </varlistentry>
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| 310 | 
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| 311 |       <varlistentry id="showconsolefont">
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| 312 |         <term><command>showconsolefont</command></term>
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| 313 |         <listitem>
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| 314 |           <para>Shows the current EGA/VGA console screen font</para>
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| 315 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd showconsolefont">
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| 316 |             <primary sortas="b-showconsolefont">showconsolefont</primary>
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| 317 |           </indexterm>
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| 318 |         </listitem>
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| 319 |       </varlistentry>
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| 320 | 
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| 321 |       <varlistentry id="showkey">
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| 322 |         <term><command>showkey</command></term>
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| 323 |         <listitem>
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| 324 |           <para>Reports the scancodes, keycodes, and ASCII codes of the keys
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| 325 |           pressed on the keyboard</para>
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| 326 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd showkey">
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| 327 |             <primary sortas="b-showkey">showkey</primary>
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| 328 |           </indexterm>
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| 329 |         </listitem>
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| 330 |       </varlistentry>
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| 331 | 
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| 332 |       <varlistentry id="unicode_start">
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| 333 |         <term><command>unicode_start</command></term>
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| 334 |         <listitem>
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| 335 |           <para>Puts the keyboard and console in UNICODE mode. Never use it on
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| 336 |           LFS, because applications are not configured to support UNICODE.</para>
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| 337 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd unicode_start">
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| 338 |             <primary sortas="b-unicode_start">unicode_start</primary>
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| 339 |           </indexterm>
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| 340 |         </listitem>
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| 341 |       </varlistentry>
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| 342 | 
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| 343 |       <varlistentry id="unicode_stop">
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| 344 |         <term><command>unicode_stop</command></term>
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| 345 |         <listitem>
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| 346 |           <para>Reverts keyboard and console from UNICODE mode</para>
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| 347 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-kbd unicode_stop">
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| 348 |             <primary sortas="b-unicode_stop">unicode_stop</primary>
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| 349 |           </indexterm>
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| 350 |         </listitem>
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| 351 |       </varlistentry>
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| 352 | 
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| 353 |     </variablelist>
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| 354 | 
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| 355 |   </sect2>
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| 356 | 
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| 357 | </sect1>
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