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+#!/bin/bash
+# $Id$
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2004  Roland Gruber
+# This code is part of LDAP Account Manager (http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/lam)
+
+# This script is run after make_po to merge the existing Japanese translations to messages.po
+
+msgmerge -v ../locale/ja_JP/LC_MESSAGES/messages.po messages.po -o messages.po