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+/**
+ * xerxes - mysql proxying
+ * ``Why do you persist in your loneliness?'' --Xerxes
+ * (c) 2008 
+ * Jan Losinski <losinshi@wh2.tu-dresden.de> 
+ * Maximilian Marx <mmarx@wh2.tu-dresden.de>
+ */	
+
+#ifndef XERXES_XERXES_HXX
+#define XERXES_XERXES_HXX
+
+extern int be_quiet;
+extern int be_debug;
+
+#endif