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+#!/usr/bin/python
+
+#Copyright 2008 Carl Gherardi
+#This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+#it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+#the Free Software Foundation, version 3 of the License.
+#
+#This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+#but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+#MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+#GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+#You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+#along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+#In the "official" distribution you can find the license in
+#agpl-3.0.txt in the docs folder of the package.
+
+
+import os
+import sys
+
+# sys.path[0] holds the dir run_fpdb.py was in
+sys.path[0] = sys.path[0]+os.sep+"pyfpdb"
+
+import fpdb
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    me = fpdb.fpdb()
+    me.main()
+    exit()