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authorhpa <hpa>2001-11-12 20:55:41 +0000
committerhpa <hpa>2001-11-12 20:55:41 +0000
commit01b753d213e004ab26c098e363089ffa7ef909fa (patch)
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downloadtftp-hpa-01b753d213e004ab26c098e363089ffa7ef909fa.tar.gz
Update the README to better reflect reality.
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@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
-This is tftp-hpa-0.21; this version was put out by H. Peter Anvin
-<hpa@zytor.com>.
+This is tftp-hpa-0.22, a conglomerate of a number of versions of the
+BSD TFTP code, changed around to port to a whole collection of
+operating systems. The goal is to work on any reasonably modern Unix
+with sockets.
+
+The tftp-hpa series is maintained by H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>.
The latest version of this collection can be found at:
@@ -14,6 +18,13 @@ server. Although a tftp client is included, it is by and large the
stock OpenBSD version, with a small handful of portability
improvements.
+You almost certainly will need to use GNU make to build tftp-hpa; GNU
+make can be obtained at:
+
+ ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/make/
+or
+ ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/gnu/make/
+
===> IMPORTANT: SEE THE FILE "README.security" FOR IMPORTANT SECURITY
===> CHANGES ENACTED IN VERSION 0.17!!!!!!!!!
@@ -134,10 +145,6 @@ Changes in 0.13:
General information on the tftp-hpa series:
-This is a conglomerate of a number of versions of the BSD TFTP code,
-ported to Linux, although it should work on mostly any POSIX-compliant
-OS with sockets. You may have to use GNU make to build it.
-
The core software was taken from OpenBSD (CVS source as of
1999-09-21). I believe this was the most secure source base available
at the time I obtained this code, and it included support for the -s