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  francine
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Version
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This is version 0.99.8 of francine.

Installing francine
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Please see the file INSTALL for instructions. But as with many Linux
applications, it is the usual "./configure ; make ; make install" way.

Features
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francine contains lots of features:
* support for themes based on ANSI files.
* customizing through an embedded scripting language (S-Lang; see 
  <http://www.s-lang.org/>).
* support for /etc/usertty file.
* support for a powerful logging system.
* support for PAM.
* support for standard crypt() and MD5 password encryption, even without
  PAM support.

Documentation
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You can always find the latest documentation of francine in the project's
CVS repository, module francine-doc.

You can check out this module by typing this on your shell:

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.francine.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/francine login
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.francine.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/francine co \
francine-doc

Platforms
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francine currently compiles on the following platforms:
* GNU/Linux
* Solaris 8 (currently untested)
* Tru64 Unix (with lots of warnings, also untested)

Future Goals
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These are the project's future goals:
* support for more Unix platforms (AIX, *BSD, HP-UX, ...).
* ...

If you have any ideas, please send them to us.

Authors
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Andreas Krennmair <a.krennmair@aon.at>
Gerfried Fuchs <alfie@debian.org>
