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-# ii
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-This is my patched version of ii. The base version is directly from suckless.org.
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-## Patches
-
-The list below shows the currently applied patches to the master branch.
-
-- ii-2.0-ssl.diff (adds SSL support)
-
-## Installation
-
-The most basic way is to clone the repository and then invoke make.
-
-- `git clone https://github.com/tiyn/ii`
-- `make clean install`