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added misc/list-versions This script helps to check if the versions numbers in the project are the same as the one for the release. This script is motivated by the 0.2.27 release in which masqmail introduces itself as being version 0.2.26.
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1 COPYRIGHT ISSUES:
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3 This version of 'libident' is hereby released into the
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4 Public Domain. It may be distributed for a fee or without
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5 a fee. We only ask you not to pretend you wrote it.
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7 If you make any changes, please send sources or a diff of it to
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8 us (pen@lysator.liu.se or pell@lysator.liu.se), so we can keep
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9 _one_ unified version of libident available...
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12 FTP SITE:
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14 The official FTP site and location for libident is:
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16 ftp://ftp.lysator.liu.se/pub/ident/libs
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19 COMMENTS:
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21 This is the second stab at a small library to interface to the Ident
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22 protocol server. Maybe this will work correctly on some machines.. :-)
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24 The ident-tester.c file is a small daemon (to be started from Inetd)
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25 that does an ident lookup on you if you telnet into it. Can be used
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26 to verify that your Ident server is working correctly.
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28 I'm currently running this "ident-tester" on port 114 at lysator.liu.se
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29 (130.236.254.1) if you wish to test your server.
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31 /Peter Eriksson <pen@lysator.liu.se>, 1 Aug 1992
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34 This library now contains some higher-level routines, as well as a
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35 similar test program to test these (lookup-tester).
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37 /Pär Emanuelsson <pell@lysator.liu.se>, 4 April 1993
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40 Support for NextStep 3.1 added.
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42 /Michael Kuch <kuch@mailserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de>, 13 Aug 1993
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45 Updated the ident.h header file to work with Linux, and reorganized the
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46 Makefile for easier compilation...
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48 /Peter Eriksson, 18 Oct 1994
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51 Added the copyright notice at the top.
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53 /Peter Eriksson, 29 Nov 1994
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56 For release 0.18:
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58 Added some bug fixes and improvements from Jean-Philippe Martin-Flatin
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59 (syj@ecmwf.int).
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61 /Peter Eriksson, 5 Oct 1995
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64 For release 0.20:
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66 Some cleanup of the distribution, and some bug fixes in the
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67 ident-tester.c source. Perhaps it should be called 1.0? (Perhaps
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68 it should use GNU Autoconf...)
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70 /Peter Eriksson, 13 Nov 1996
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73 For release 0.21:
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75 A couple of minor fixes (mainly support for 2.11BSD).
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77 /Peter Eriksson, 17 Jan 1997