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5 .\" Manual page for `sw-info' files.
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75 .TH sw-info 5 "25 May 1999" sw-tools
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82 sw-info \- description of sw data files
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90 file contains blank lines, comment lines, and assignments. A blank line
91 contains only whitespace; a comment line has a
93 as its first non-whitespace character: both are ignored. An assignment
104 is one of the field names described below, and
106 is any text which doesn't contain newlines, semicolons or null bytes.
107 Any leading whitespace is stripped; trailing and internal space is
110 The fields available are:
116 The version number of the package.
119 The user name of the package's local maintainer.
122 The date at which this package was last modified by \*(sw, in the form
123 .IB YYYY \- MM \- DD\fR.
126 The current architecture restriction. The architecture names are
127 separated by commas or spaces (or both). This field is omitted if there
128 is no restriction in force.
131 Successfully built architectures. The architecture names are separated
132 by commas or spaces (or both).
136 file consists of a number of entries, one per line. Comments and blank
137 lines are not allowed. Each line contains assignments for a particular
138 package, separated by semicolons rather than newlines.
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148 The \*(sw program, and this manual, are \*(mw productions, in association
149 with the European Bioinformatics Institute. They were written by Mark
150 Wooding <mdw@nsict.org>. Go and ask him if you have problems.
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