diff --git a/INSTALL.txt b/INSTALL.txt index 8b2803faca..4a7655c8a1 100644 --- a/INSTALL.txt +++ b/INSTALL.txt @@ -70,4 +70,4 @@ Welcome to Evennia! proceed from here. * For questions, see the discussion group or the chat. 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Instead admins are @@ -159,4 +165,4 @@ of the documentation. locales/ holds translations of the server strings to other languages than English. -Enjoy! \ No newline at end of file +Enjoy!