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+Please submit an issue for bug reports or feature requests.  If you have any questions please post them on [the Duplicacy forum](https://forum.duplicacy.com)
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+When you're reporting a bug, please specify the OS, version, command line arguments, or any info that you think is helpful for the diagnosis.  If Duplicacy reports an error, please post the program output here.
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+Note that this repository hosts the CLI version of Duplicacy only.  If you're reporting anything related to the GUI version, please visit [the Duplicacy forum](https://forum.duplicacy.com).