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Fixes #16

Signed-off-by: Andrew Naylor <argon@mkbot.net>
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Use `mas signout` to sign out from the Mac App Store.

### tmux

`mas` operates via the same system services as the Mac App Store. These exist as separate processes with communication through XPC. As a result of this, `mas` experiences similar problems as the pasteboard when running inside `tmux`. A [wrapper tool exists](https://github.com/ChrisJohnsen/tmux-MacOSX-pasteboard) to fix pasteboard behaviour which also works for `mas`.

You should consider configuring `tmux` to use the wrapper but if you do not wish to do this it can be used on a one-off basis as follows:

```
$ brew install reattach-to-user-namespace
$ reattach-to-user-namespace mas install
```

## Build from source

`mas` currently requires the [bundler](http://bundler.io/) RubyGem in order to
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