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+Built most of the external special remote today. While I've written 600
+lines of code for this, and think it's probably working, and complete
+(except for a couple of features), all I know is that it compiles.
+I've also written an [[example external special remote program in shell script|special_remotes/external/example.sh]],
+so the next step is to put the two together and see how it works.