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Welcome to the fourth beta release of ifchk 0.95. This is a minor release
that fixes a potential file race condition and also adds additional file
type checking. Both of these changes pertain to the ifchk Linux module
The file ~/ifchk-0.95b4/CHANGES discusses this further.

ifchk is now divided into the following components to facilitate program
portability and modularity:

(a) A framework providing services such as program startup, event logging,
    user identification and help output.

(b) Support for operating system specific plug-in modules that implement
    core interface management functionality. Currently, modules exist for
    Linux (linux.c, linux.h) and IRIX (irix.c, irix.h).

A module is compiled with the framework to produce an ifchk binary.

This release sees the maturation of the above program architecture thus
providing the solidity required for future functional developments.


NOTES.
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+ If you are building for IRIX, please begin by reading the installation
  file at ~/ifchk-0.95b4/INSTALL.IRIX.

+ If you are building for Linux, please begin by reading the installation
  file at ~/ifchk-0.95b4/INSTALL.Linux.

+ The papers directory contains a PDF and Postscript version of a white-
  paper discussing Project ifchk from several different perspectives.
  These include motivations for creating ifchk, program functionality and
  internal operation in addition to the future directions ifchk will take.


Enjoy.

-Josh Birnbaum <engineer@noorg.org>.
