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Date: 1998-04-01 2:13:16
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Linux-Announce Digest #972, Volume #2 Wed, 1 Apr 98 02:13:16 EST
Contents:
libtool-1.2 - generic library support script (Gordon Matzigkeit)
Etherback 0.92 - pseudo ethernet driver ("Krzysztof G. Baranowski")
lprMagic V2.0 - multipurpose lpr input filter (Michele Andreoli)
CONFERENCE: 12th USENIX SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATION CONFERENCE (LISA '98) - CFP (Jackson Dodd)
XEvil Mutant Strain 1.5.2 multiplayer game (George Caswell)
dcd: dave's cd player ("David E. Smith")
COMMERCIAL/LOCAL: For Canadians - Redhat5.0 & Netscape (Red Hat Linux User)
Linux-on-SimICS: Booting Linux on a SPARC SMP simulator (Peter S. Magnusson)
MultiMail Blue Wave & QWK packet reader for Unix, v0.11 (William McBrine)
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From: Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@bambam.m-tech.ab.ca>
Subject: libtool-1.2 - generic library support script
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 15:28:26 GMT
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Hi, all!
I'm pleased to announce the official release of GNU libtool 1.2. This
release should apppear shortly on your nearest GNU mirror, and at the
GNU master site:
<URL:ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libtool-1.2.tar.gz>
Diffs and xdeltas from 1.1 are also available in the same location.
This is a bug-fixing release, since libtool-1.1 had some minor bugs
which broke support on Solaris, and I'd like to provide the public
with a stable version of libtool that can be used until the next
development cycle is complete.
For those who aren't familiar with libtool, here is an excerpt from
the package README:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This is GNU Libtool, a generic library support script. Libtool hides
the complexity of using shared libraries behind a consistent, portable
interface.
To use libtool, add the new generic library building commands to your
Makefile, Makefile.in, or Makefile.am. See the documentation for
details.
Libtool supports building static libraries on all platforms.
Shared library support has been implemented for these platforms:
AIX 3.x (*-*-aix3*)
AIX 4.x (*-*-aix4*)
AmigaOS (*-*-amigaos*)
Digital/UNIX 3.x, 4.x, a.k.a. OSF/1 (*-*-osf3*, *-*-osf4*)
FreeBSD 2.x, 3.x (*-*-freebsd2*, *-*-freebsd3*)
GNU/Linux ELF (*-*-linux-gnu*, except aout, coff, and oldld)
HP-UX 9.x, 10.x (*-*-hpux9*, *-*-hpux10*) [see note]
IRIX 5.x, 6.x (*-*-irix5*, *-*-irix6*)
NetBSD 1.x (*-*-netbsd*)
OpenBSD 2.x (*-*-openbsd*)
OS/2 using EMX (*-*-os2*)
SCO OpenServer 5.x (*-*-sco3.2v5*)
Solaris 2.x (*-*-solaris2*)
SunOS 4.x, a.k.a. Solaris 1.x (*-*-sunos4*)
UnixWare 2.x (*-*-sysv4.2uw2*)
UTS 4.x (*-*-uts4*)
All ELF targets that use both the GNU C compiler (gcc) and GNU ld
NOTE: The vendor-distributed HP-UX sed(1) programs are horribly broken,
and cannot handle libtool's requirements, so users may report unusual
problems. There is no workaround except to install a working sed
(such as GNU sed) on these systems.
Libtool's home page is:
http://www.profitpress.com/libtool/
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Aside from bug fixes, there are no user-visible changes between
libtool-1.1 and libtool-1.2.
User-visable changes from libtool-1.0 are listed in the NEWS file:
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
New in 1.1 - 1998-03-08, Gordon Matzigkeit:
* Bug fixes.
* http://www.profitpress.com/libtool/ is libtool's homepage.
* `AM_PROG_LIBTOOL' supports turning shared or static libraries off
with the `--enable-shared=PKGS' and `--enable-static=PKGS' configure
flags. See (libtool)AM_PROG_LIBTOOL.
* Use the `AM_DISABLE_SHARED' or `AM_DISABLE_STATIC' macros if you
wish to modify the default behaviour of `AM_PROG_LIBTOOL' for your
package.
* New rules for `AM_PROG_LD' to use gcc's `-print-prog-name' flag in
order to find ld, if possible.
* Suppress duplicate compiler output during `compile' mode.
* Deleted `dlname' mode. Dlopen applications should only use the
runtime search method described in (libtool)Finding the dlname.
* Experimental support for dynamically loaded modules, even on
static-only platforms, via new `-dlopen' and `-dlpreopen' link
flags.
* `compile' mode honours the `-static' flag to prevent libtool
from building PIC objects.
* New `execute' mode to support debugging uninstalled libtool
libraries and executables.
* `-allow-undefined' is now the default. You can use `-no-undefined'
to declare that a shared library is completely self-contained.
* Inter-library dependencies are automatically handled when linking
against an uninstalled `.la' file.
* New `-all-static' flag to prevent any dynamic linking. The regular
`-static' flag now just prevents dynamic linking of libtool libraries.
* New `-release' flag to encode release numbers into libtool
libraries. This breaks binary compatibility, but is useful for
libraries whose interfaces change very frequently. See
(libtool)Versioning.
* The `-rpath' flag can be used to hardcode absolute directories when
linking executables using libtool.
* New robust quoting code to handle any metacharacters passed in
arguments to libtool commands.
* Full support for broken collect2 on AIX 3. Shared libraries
can now be built with all working versions of GCC on AIX.
* Shell script speed optimizations for old and buggy /bin/sh systems,
such as HP-UX 9 and SunOS 4.1.4.
* Maybe use `_libs' as a temporary libtool directory instead of `.libs'
in order to cope with MS-DOS filenames.
* Portability fixes for Windows NT.
* Refuse to create libtool libraries that don't begin with `lib'.
This allows us to correctly handle OSes that don't have the `lib'
prefix by default, such as OS/2.
* Support for *-*-amigaos*, *-*-os2*, *-*-sysv4.2uw2*, and *-*-uts4*.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Many thanks to all the people who have made this release possible.
Please report bugs to the libtool mailing list <bug-libtool@gnu.org>.
If you wish to subscribe to bug-libtool, you can send mail to
<bug-libtool-request@gnu.org>... be patient, though... the list is
manually administered.
Have fun!
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Gordon Matzigkeit \ Proudly running pieces of the GNU operating system.
gord@profitpress.com \ Jacques Cousteau loved programming in assembler.
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From: "Krzysztof G. Baranowski" <kgb@manjak.knm.org.pl>
Subject: Etherback 0.92 - pseudo ethernet driver
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 15:35:24 GMT
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Hello,
some time ago I was playing with an set of auditing tools.
The problem was that they required an eth interface, but I
had not any ethernet card (the computer used for testing
had only modem and nothing else). The problem was solved
by writing an fake ethernet driver. It was implemented
as an loadable kernel module (for 2.0.x and 2.1.x kernels).
You may fetch it from:
http://www.knm.org.pl/prezes/patches/etherback-0.92.tgz
Comments, flames, suggestion always welcome. In case of problems
feel free to mail me.
Regards,
Kris
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"Smith & Wesson - The original point and click interface..."
http://www.knm.org.pl/ <prezes@manjak.knm.org.pl>
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From: Michele Andreoli <AntiSpam@RunnerUnit.it>
Subject: lprMagic V2.0 - multipurpose lpr input filter
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 15:41:46 GMT
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For download
http://www4.pisoft.it/~andreoli/lprMagic.html
Begin
Title: lprMagic - lpr Universal Filter for Linux
Version: 2.0
Tested-on: RedHat & Debian & Slackware Linux 2.0.32
Entered-date: Feb 1998
Description: lprMagic is an lineprinter input filter
for Unix Systems with Berkeley alike printing
system (configuration using /etc/printcap), entirely
and completely user configurable, via additional
file /etc/lprMagic.conf. lprMagic extend
the meaning of the word "printing", using in a
ingenious way the -C lpr string, allowing the "printing"
and the queueing of activity on /dev/lp, /dev/modem,
/dev/sequencer,/dev/dsp,
tcp port (ftp,smtp,nntp,http,...) and so on.
Examples:
lpr -C"sheet=8;pages=5-8" file.txt
# print pages 5-8 of file.txt, 8 sheet for page.
lpr -C"device=fax;from=ME,to=YOU;tel=xyz;at=11am" file
# send a fax to YOU at 11am, today.
lpr -#4 -C"at=25.12.1997" merry.wav
# play a song four times at Christmas' Day.
lpr -"device=g3;output:=|uuencode -|mail root" file.ps
# convert file.ps to g3 format and mail-it to root,
# uuencoded.
Main features are:
1) AUTOMATIC FILE TYPE RECOGNITION for the
filetypes ascii, html, postscript,dvi,rpm,
Micro(soft) Wave, Midi, gif, jpg, bmp, G3, tiffg3,etc.
2) FILE CONVERSION CAPABILITY (via pipe/redirection)
3) PRINTER & PAPER & RESOL. SELECTION AT RUN TIME
4) DELAYED-PROCESSING (via at(1))
5) SAMBA & LPRng support
Keywords: linux lpr filter magic format conversion
Author: andreoli@pisoft.it (Michele Andreoli)
Maintained-by: andreoli@pisoft.it (Michele Andreoli)
Primary-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/Printing
lprMagic-?.?.tgz
Original-site: http://www4.pisoft.it/~andreoli/lprMagic.html
Platforms: Linux,#>0 printer(s),gcc,gs(1),a2ps,[efax,
Platforms: Netcat,Sndkit,Net-PBM,mpage]
Copying-policy: GPL
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From: jackson@usenix.ORG (Jackson Dodd)
Subject: CONFERENCE: 12th USENIX SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATION CONFERENCE (LISA '98) - CFP
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 15:42:39 GMT
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System Administrators: Contribute to and Attend the Most Important
Conference of Your Profession
12TH SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATION CONFERENCE (LISA '98)
December 6-11, 1998
Boston, Massachusetts
For System Administrators at All Levels of Experience, Supporting a
Variety of Platforms at Sites of All Sizes.
Sponsored by USENIX, The Advanced Computing Systems Association
Co-Sponsored by SAGE, the System Administrators Guild
=================================================================
SEEKING:
Refereed Papers, Invited Talks, Works-in-Progress and Tutorial
proposals.
Refereed Paper Extended Abstracts and Invited Talk Proposals due:
June 23, 1998
Call for Participation at: http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa98
=================================================================
USENIX is the Advanced Computing Systems Association. SAGE, the
System Administrators Guild, is a special technical group within
USENIX. To find out more about USENIX and SAGE, visit the Web site:
http://www.usenix.org.
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From: George Caswell <timbuktu@adamant.res.wpi.net>
Subject: XEvil Mutant Strain 1.5.2 multiplayer game
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 15:56:31 GMT
Reply-To: timbuktu@WPI.EDU
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Hi everybody! Proud to announce the first released version of the new
"Mutant Strain" of the game XEvil for Xlib-equipped systems! The current
version-in-development is available at
http://adamant.res.wpi.net/~timbuktu/xevil
What is XEvil?
XEvil is a game written in C++ and straight Xlib by Steve Hardt and Mike
Judge. It's a third-person side-scrolling shoot-em-up type game, where it's
every creature/automaton for themselves. Characters have different
capabilities, strengths, and weaknesses depending on what type of creature
they are (robotic walker, ninja, slab-o-beef action-hero type, etc) and what
weapons and items they can collect. (missile launchers, grenades, machine
guns, etc.) Until version 1.5.1e, the game was free software under GPL. With
version 2.0, the game was limited to binary distribution. The binary
distributions of XEvil 2.0, as well as the original source for 1.5.1e, can be
found at http://www.xevil.com
What is the Mutant Strain?
The Mutant Strain is my attempt to make the old version of XEvil
(1.5.1e) as good as, or better than 2.0, and releasing it under GPL, so the
new versions can again be included with distributions like Debian, which
accept only Free Software, and compiled on systems with odd setups the
authors/maintainers might not like to cross-compile to. 2.0 has a couple
years head-start, and includes more power-ups and creature classes, moving
platforms, and net play which I haven't begun to implement. The current
snapshot release of the Mutant Strain, however, is quite an improvement on
1.5.1e, including some new features of its own, and some of the new features
of 2.0.
What's new?
Bazooka- a powerful, fast weapon that launches exploding rockets. Will
kill a lot of the weaker creatures in one shot.
FireBombs- like the Napalm grenades in XEvil 2.0. Renamed because,
well, I like this name better.
Missiles explode on impact.
Missiles, rockets, and fire create smoke effects.
New fire effect- orange translucent bitmaps drawn in the foreground.
That's the good thing. The bad thing is that, with the new fire effect in
place, the old fireball effect doesn't look so good anymore...
New shield, inspired by the old Fantastic Four cartoons-- use it and
get unlimited heat protection and take only half damage from physical attacks.
Transdoppels- create a doppleganger-like servant of a random creature
type.
The old "Heroes" are now called "Beefcakes". I thought it was more
descriptive.
Altar of Sin has some new behaviors and some from 2.0. AI creatures can
use the altar as well. Supports "double health" bonus from 2.0.
Added in blood, needs some fine-tuning, but works.
All machines are now given names from the name list.
A creature class or two that I'll probably have to remove from the
program for legal reasons.. <sigh>
________________________________________________
______________ _/> ____ | George Caswell: WPI CS'99. Member of SOMA team |
<___ _________// _/<_ / | LnL Projectionist-in-action! Linux+PC hobbyist.|
// <> ___ < > / _/ | "Did -I- say that? Oh, well, I guess I did.. |
// /> / / _/ / / <____ | Well what do you -want-? I'm _EVIL_!" -Dr. F |
// </ <<</ < _/ <______/ |_For more info see http://www.wpi.edu/~timbuktu_|
</ </
PGP 2.6.2 public key print D9 88 A0 53 DC 7E 66 F1 B7 44 D1 7E 48 95 D8 E0
'Ninja "Joan of Arc's bitch" has died' - Mutant Strain.
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From: "David E. Smith" <dave@bureau42.ml.org>
Subject: dcd: dave's cd player
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 16:17:46 GMT
Reply-To: dave@walledcity.ml.org
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This is the general public announcement of dcd, `dave's cd player.'
dcd is the CD player for people who think workbone is too graphical and
fluffy. dcd operates from the command line, and most of its features
simply "do" something and immediately exit.
It has all the stuff people would expect from a CD player - start the disk
on a given track, skip around, stop the player. It also has `programmable'
looping; dcd loop 1 3 7 does just what you would expect - continually
plays the listed tracks until you stop it.
The current version can be found at
ftp://biology.semo.edu/pub/dsmith/dcd-current.tgz .
It's also in the "Incoming" directory at sunsite.
Comments, flames, fan mail, bug reports (or reports of success!) should go
to dave@bureau42.ml.org.
dave
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From: Red Hat Linux User <csleung@aicom.com>
Subject: COMMERCIAL/LOCAL: For Canadians - Redhat5.0 & Netscape
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 16:19:36 GMT
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Canadian Linux Distribution is pleased to announce the
GPL RedHat Linux 5.0 distribution on CD-R (include
contrib + netscape communicator).
For details, please visit
http://www.angelfire.com/biz/ixia/
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From: psm@sics.se (Peter S. Magnusson)
Subject: Linux-on-SimICS: Booting Linux on a SPARC SMP simulator
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 15:47:14 GMT
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Announcing the availability of Linux-on-SimICS,
a complete environment for booting and running unmodified
Linux 2.0.30 binaries on a system-level simulator
http://www.sics.se/simics/
SimICS is a combined instruction-set simulator (Sparc V8) and operating system
emulator (SunOS 5.x) developed at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science.
SimICS can simulate multiple processors (SMP), data and instruction caches,
and devices sufficient accurately to boot and run operating systems straight
from bootable disk partition dumps. It offers a fully "open" view of the
execution of essentially arbitrary workloads.
We are now releasing a version of SimICS (sun4m) capable of booting and
running an unmodified version of Linux 2.0.30 (Red Hat 4.2/Sparc), complete
with Linux sources and binaries, and a version of GDB for symbolic profiling
and debugging of arbitrary portions of Linux.
(And yes, when we say "unmodified" we mean just that. We downloaded the Red
Hat distribution and installed it on a virtual sun4m workstation.)
Linux-on-SimICS will hopefully prove useful for operating system and computer
architecture research. SimICS is also a useful tool for program debugging and
performance analysis of software systems.
This is a first wide-audience distribution of Linux-on-SimICS, so we value
your feedback.
Some highlights of the package:
* Support for system-level code. SimICS supports operating system code,
including the (Sparc V8) trap model. You can thus port a toy or real
operating system to SimICS. There is support for adding your own device
simulators, MMU, and physical address mapping to construct a computer of
your choice. This distribution includes prepared files, scripts, source,
and binaries for a Linux installation. SimICS can also boot and run Solaris
2.6, but for obvious reasons we cannot redistribute an installation.
* "Virtual workstation". SimICS can simulate network devices to the point of
allowing a booted operating system to appear on your local network as an
ordinary (albeit slow) workstation. You can telnet to it, or run a web
server and profile file system activity, etc.
* Multipro support. SimICS can simulate one or more CPUs (shared-memory MP).
* Instruction and Data cache support. SimICS will model caches (with cache
lines that are multiples of 32 bytes), using either included cache
simulators or a user-developed model.
* Exact execution profiling. SimICS counts every from-to branch pair, and
can either provide an execution profile view (for each instruction a
frequency count), or answer queries on branches (such as how many branches
were taken *into* a particular region, and from where). Note that this
profiling works for completely arbitrary code, including function pointer
indirections and/or run-time generated code.
* Performance profiling. Provides profiling of cache and TLB behavior
(allocating misses to individual instructions), including interactive
definition of cache (number of lines, associativity, and line size) and TLB
size.
* Debugging. Includes several debugging features, such as support for
arbitrary memory breakpoints (any combination of read/write/execute to any
set of memory addresses), breakpoints in "time", on control register
access, on device access, etc.
* Is fully deterministic, facilitating bug hunting. When running on the
network in "virtual workstation" mode, network traffic can be recorded
allowing a user to re-create the execution off-line.
* Is fully interactive, with a command-line interface, and can be run from
scripts.
* Includes a modified version of GDB 4.16, thus allowing symbolic debugging
of parallel programs, multiprogrammed workloads, or operating systems.
"http://www.sics.se/simics/gdb.html" contains some examples.
* Extensions manual. There are several ways to add features or tailor
SimICS in various ways. The documentation is (more or less) grouped in
a single document.
* Fast execution (for a simulator). For the SPECint95 benchmark suite,
slowdown is in the range of 26-40 with no cache/TLB modelling, and in the
range 31-108 when simulating a "SuperSparc processor" (64 entry TLB, 16K
data cache, 20K instruction cache).
* SimICS can also emulate a subset of the Solaris 2.x ABI in "unix emulation
mode", allowing it to directly run many Solaris 2.x binaries, regardless of
the original source code or language, including debugging/profiling
dynamically linked or run-time generated code. In this mode it supports
running multiple unix processes (workloads) in the same environment,
including support for fork(), exec(), and arbitrary mmap(). The support is
sufficient to run the full Splash2 and SPECint95 suites.
SimICS is a research prototype. Feedback, bug reports, questions, and other
responses are most welcome. We will try to meet any (reasonable) requests for
fixes and features.
Please refer to the SimICS web site for more details and future updates.
Send bug reports and comments to "simics-bug@sics.se".
SimICS currently only runs on Solaris 2.x (Sparc) platforms. To run
Linux-on-SimICS, you will need access to a Solaris 2.x (Sparc) workstation
with a fair amount of memory (200M to boot Linux) and disk (also around 200M).
And the faster host the better---access to an Ultra workstation is highly
recommended.
SimICS is pronounced "sim-ix".
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Peter Magnusson
psm@sics.se http://www.sics.se/~psm
Swedish Institute of Computer Science
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From: William McBrine <wmcbrine@clark.net>
Subject: MultiMail Blue Wave & QWK packet reader for Unix, v0.11
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 16:43:15 GMT
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MultiMail is an offline mail packet reader for Unix systems. It currently
supports the Blue Wave and QWK formats. It has a full screen, color user
interface, built with the ncurses library.
MultiMail is still in a fairly early stage of development.
The program was originally written by Kolossvary Tamas and Toth Istvan;
QWK support was added by John Zero. The current maintainer is William
McBrine <wmcbrine@clark.net>. The MultiMail home page is:
http://www.clark.net/~wmcbrine/multimail.html
Sorry, no Fidonet addresses at this time.
What's New in version 0.11?
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* MultiMail now cleans up after a "Fatal Error:" exit.
* Area and system descriptions are included with saved messages.
* The automatic addition of "Re:" to the subject line of replies is
handled better.
* It can be compiled with gcc 2.8.x as well as 2.7.x.
What's New in version 0.10?
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* Shadowed windows.
* SIGWINCH support -- resize the terminal while using MultiMail.
* Fix for a serious bug in 0.9 that made it unusable on some systems. If
you got a segfault right after uncompressing a new packet with 0.9, but
not with 0.8, then try this version.
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Title: MultiMail (source)
Version: 0.11
Entered-date: 21MAR98
Description: MultiMail is an ncurses-based Blue Wave and QWK packet
compatible offline mail reader for Unix.
Keywords: mail bluewave qwk bbs fido offline reader
Author: wmcbrine@clark.net (William McBrine)
Maintained-by: wmcbrine@clark.net (William McBrine)
Primary-site: ftp.clark.net /pub/wmcbrine/bbs/offline
85808 mmail-0.11.tar.gz
Alternate-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/bbs/mail
Original-site:
Platforms: Unix, C++, ncurses and InfoZip. Tested on Linux/i386,
Solaris/Sparc, and NetBSD/mac68k.
Copying-policy: GPL 2.0
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wmcbrine@clark.net | The age of Brian Graden is over.
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