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<title>Welcome to the LFS Editor's Manual</title>
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<para>This manual will teach you all that you need to know in order to
properly edit the LFS-Book. It will cover some basic issues like accessing
Subversion over SSH and the Subversion commands you will use. It will also discuss
the proper sequence of doing things like upgrading a package and how to work with
the bug tracking database.</para>

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-- 
Gerard Beekmans
gerard@linuxfromscratch.org
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