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@@ -3,3 +3,4 @@ GNU inetutils
 This is a distribution of common networking utilities and servers.
 They are currently mostly from the 4.4BSD-Lite2 distribution.
 Whois client was written by Joel N. Weber II.
+ping and talkd was written by Sergey Poznyakoff

ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,15 @@
+2002-02-12  Jeff Bailey  <jbailey@outpost.dnsalias.org>
+
+	* TODO: Remove ping
+
+	* THANKS: Update
+
+	* README-alpha: *Wow* this file was really inaccurate.
+
+	* NEWS: Mention talkd, and ping
+
+	* AUTHORS: Update
+
 2002-02-10  Jeff Bailey  <jbailey@outpost.dnsalias.org>
 
 	* configure.in: Reworked for autoconf 2.52 and renamed to

NEWS

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Inetutils NEWS -- history of user-visible changes
 Please send inetutils bug reports to bug-inetutils@gnu.org.
 
-Release 1.3.3:
+Release 1.4.0:
  It is now possible to specify whether to compile individual utilities using
  arguments to configure.
 
@@ -12,6 +12,12 @@ Release 1.3.3:
 
  Security fixes.
 
+ Talk essentially rewritten.
+
+ Ping added.
+
+ Inetutils should generally compile on most platforms now.
+
 Release 1.3.2:
  This release attempts to get the encryption/authentication options to
  compile correctly; they appear to work on systems with the appropriate

README-alpha

@@ -1,18 +1,21 @@
-This is a test release of this package.  Bugs are now handled through 
-bug-inetutils for both released and unreleased versions of this package.
+This is a test release of this package.  Bugs are now handled through
+bug-inetutils for both released and unreleased versions of this
+package.
 
 If you see a problem that you've already reported, feel free to
 re-report it -- it won't bother me to get a reminder.  Besides, the
-more messages I get regarding a particular problem the sooner it'll
-be fixed -- usually.  If you sent a complete patch and I didn't apply
-it or get back to you, please let me know.
+more messages I get regarding a particular problem the sooner it'll be
+fixed -- usually.  If you sent a complete patch and I didn't apply it
+or get back to you, please let me know.
 
 Please send comments and problem reports to bug-inetutils@gnu.org.
 
-Snapshots are generally no longer provided, as the code is available through
-anonymous CVS.  Set your CVSROOT string to: 
+Snapshots can be obtained at ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/cvs/inetutils.tgz
 
-:pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.gnu.org:/gd/gnu/anoncvsroot
+The code is also available through anonymous CVS.  Set your CVSROOT
+string to:
+
+:pserver:anoncvs@cvs.gnu.org:/cvsroot/inetutils
 
 Hit enter when prompted for a password
 

THANKS

@@ -13,15 +13,16 @@ In particular:
 Please see */ChangeLog for full credits.
 ----------------------
 Email of contributors in alphabetical order:
-Dan Stromberg    <strombrg@nis.acs.uci.edu>
-David O'Shea     <david_oshea@altavista.com>
-Frederic Goudal  <goudal@enserb.u-bordeaux.fr>
-Gerald Combs     <gerald@unicom.net>
-Jeff Bailey      <jbailey@nisa.net>
-Jeff Smith       <jeff@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
-Joachim Gabler   <joga@sun.com>
-Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
-Michael Vogt     <mvogt@acm.org>
-Michael Weiser   <michael@weiser.saale-net.de>
-Matt Roberds     <mroberds@worldnet.att.net>
-Bert De Knuydt   <Bert.Deknuydt@esat.kuleuven.ac.be>
+Dan Stromberg      <strombrg@nis.acs.uci.edu>
+David O'Shea       <david_oshea@altavista.com>
+Frederic Goudal    <goudal@enserb.u-bordeaux.fr>
+Gerald Combs       <gerald@unicom.net>
+Jeff Bailey        <jbailey@nisa.net>
+Jeff Smith         <jeff@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
+Joachim Gabler     <joga@sun.com>
+Marcus Brinkmann   <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
+Michael Vogt       <mvogt@acm.org>
+Michael Weiser     <michael@weiser.saale-net.de>
+Matt Roberds       <mroberds@worldnet.att.net>
+Bert De Knuydt	   <Bert.Deknuydt@esat.kuleuven.ac.be>
+Sergey Poznyakoff  <gray@farlep.net>

TODO

@@ -45,7 +45,6 @@ Testing and debugging the encryption and authentication modes.
 
 Add more utilities:
   Noah's rexec
-  Ping (BSD ping fails utterly to compile; perhaps linux's is better)
   Tcpdump
   routed?
   ruptime?