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-$FreeBSD$
-
-If you plan on building a local copy of the FreeBSD documentation, or using
-our toolchain in your own projects, please read the Documentation Primer at:
-
-    https://docs.FreeBSD.org/en/books/fdp-primer/
-
-for information about the tools and formatting languages we use.
-Chapter 1 has a Quick Start section, and Chapter 2 covers the software
-and related items in more detail.
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-$FreeBSD$
-
-If you plan on building a local copy of the FreeBSD documentation, or using
-our toolchain in your own projects, please read the Documentation Primer at:
-
-    https://docs.FreeBSD.org/en/books/fdp-primer/
-
-for information about the tools and formatting languages we use.
-Chapter 1 has a Quick Start section, and Chapter 2 covers the software
-and related items in more detail.