| 1 | The Network Time Protocol (NTP) Version 3 Distribution |
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| 3 | This is a distribution of the Network Time Protocol (NTP) Version 3 |
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| 4 | sources and documentation. NTP can be used by Unix, DEC VMS and |
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| 5 | Microsoft Windows NT platforms to synchronize the computer clock to |
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| 6 | external sources of time, such as other NTP time servers or a local |
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| 7 | radio clock. The daemon included in this distribution can operate as a |
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| 8 | server, a client, or a relay from a set of servers to a dependent client |
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| 9 | population on a local net. This distribution includes the daemon itself, |
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| 10 | plus utility programs and supporting documentation. |
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| 11 | |
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| 12 | You are welcome to the lot, with due consideration of the copyright |
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| 13 | information in the COPYRIGHT file. You are also invited to contribute |
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| 14 | bugfixes and drivers for new and exotic radios, telephones and sundials. |
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| 15 | This distribution is normally available by anonymous ftp as the |
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| 16 | compressed tar archive xntp-<version>.tar.Z in the pub/ntp directory on |
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| 17 | louie.udel.edu and <version> is the version number. The current version |
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| 18 | number can be found on the NTP web page <http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp>. |
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| 19 | |
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| 20 | A considerable amount of documentation, including build instructions, |
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| 21 | configuration advice, program usage and miscellaneous information is |
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| 22 | included in the ./html directory of this distribution. The intended |
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| 23 | access method is using a web browser such as netscape; however, the |
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| 24 | pages have been formatted so that viewing with an ordinary text editor |
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| 25 | is practical. Start the browser on the ./html/index.html page, which |
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| 26 | contains additional instructions and hotlinks to the remaining pages. |
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| 27 | Some hotlinks for the larger documents, such as related technical |
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| 28 | memoranda, reports and papers, lead to other web sites where this |
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| 29 | information is stashed. We apologize for the inconvenience this may |
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| 30 | cause for users without Internet and World Wide Web access. |
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| 31 | |
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| 32 | If you are an old hand and just want to build the distribution, you |
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| 33 | might find the INSTALL file a useful shortcut. A descriptive list of all |
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| 34 | files in the base directory of this distribution is in the README file. |
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| 35 | A list of "significant" changes for the release is in the NEWS file. |
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| 36 | |
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| 37 | If you're interested in helping us test pre-release versions of xntpd, |
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| 38 | please look in <ftp://louie.udel.edu/pub/ntp/testing/>. |
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| 39 | |
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| 40 | David L. Mills (mills@udel.edu) |
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| 41 | 12 June 1996 |
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