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+Running the Broker
+------------------
+
+To run the broker, set the QPID_HOME environment variable to
+distribution directory and add $QPID_HOME/bin to your PATH. Then run
+the qpid-server shell script or qpid-server.bat batch file to start
+the broker. By default, the broker will use $QPID_HOME/etc to find
+the configuration files. You can supply a custom configuration using
+the -c argument.
+
+For example:
+
+qpid-server -c ~/etc/config.xml
+
+You can get a list of all command line arguments by using the -h argument.
+