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-# Rust documentations
-
-## Building
-
-To generate all the docs, follow the "Building Documentation" instructions in
-the README in the root of the repository. This will convert the distributed
-Markdown docs to HTML and generate HTML doc for the books, 'std' and 'extra'
-libraries.
-
-To generate HTML documentation from one source file/crate, do something like:
-
-~~~~text
-rustdoc --output html-doc/ --output-format html ../src/libstd/path.rs
-~~~~
-
-(This, of course, requires a working build of the `rustdoc` tool.)
-
-## Additional notes
-
-To generate an HTML version of a doc from Markdown manually, you can do
-something like:
-
-~~~~text
-rustdoc reference.md
-~~~~
-
-(`reference.md` being the Rust Reference Manual.)
-
-An overview of how to use the `rustdoc` command is available [in the docs][1].
-Further details are available from the command line by with `rustdoc --help`.
-
-[1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/src/doc/rustdoc/src/what-is-rustdoc.md