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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<api>
  <query-continue>
    <allcategories acfrom="Man pages" />
  </query-continue>
  <query>
    <allcategories>
      <c size="1" pages="1" files="0" subcats="0">Admin software</c>
      <c size="0" pages="0" files="0" subcats="0">Articles actively undergoing a major edit</c>
      <c size="1" pages="1" files="0" subcats="0">Articles in need of updating</c>
      <c size="3" pages="3" files="0" subcats="0">Cluster Computing</c>
      <c size="8" pages="8" files="0" subcats="0">Email</c>
      <c size="3" pages="3" files="0" subcats="0">General</c>
      <c size="2" pages="2" files="0" subcats="0">Hardware</c>
      <c size="21" pages="21" files="0" subcats="0">Help</c>
      <c size="2" pages="2" files="0" subcats="0">Info template</c>
      <c size="5" pages="5" files="0" subcats="0">Mac OS</c>
    </allcategories>
  </query>
</api>