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