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 Code contributions and bug reports are welcomed through:
 https://github.com/DDVTECH/DMS
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+The following configure options are possible:
+--enable-verbose  = Compiles all applications in verbose mode, printing a lot more information to the screen than normally.
+--disable-verbose = The opposite of above (default).