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+book
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+# LibAFL Documentation
+
+This project contains the out-of-source LibAFL documentation.
+
+Here you can find tutorials, examples and detailed explanations.
+
+For the API documentation instead, run `cargo doc` in the LibAFl root folder.
+
+## Usage
+
+To build this book, you need [mdBook](https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook).
+
+`mdbook build` to build, `mdbook serve` to serve the book locally.
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+[book]
+authors = ["Andrea Fioraldi"]
+language = "en"
+multilingual = false
+src = "src"
+title = "LibAFL Documentation"
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+# Summary
+
+- [Chapter 1](./chapter_1.md)
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+# Chapter 1