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<h2><a href="https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Connecting+to+the+CLI">Connecting to the CLI</a></h2>
<h4>Comment <b>removed</b> by <a href="https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/~lmadsen">Leif Madsen</a>
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