diff --git a/simulat0r/firmware/l0dable/mktable.pl b/simulat0r/firmware/l0dable/mktable.pl
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+#!/usr/bin/perl
+#
+# this file (mktable.pl) does nothing in the simulat0r tree, it is just expected by the Makefiles