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67 .TH sw 1 "25 May 1999" "EBI tools"
71 sw-info \- description of sw data files
76 file contains blank lines, comment lines, and assignments. A blank line
77 contains only whitespace; a comment line has a
79 as its first non-whitespace character: both are ignored. An assignment
90 is one of the field names described below, and
92 is any text which doesn't contain newlines, semicolons or null bytes.
93 Any leading whitespace is stripped; trailing and internal space is
96 The fields available are:
102 The version number of the package.
105 The user name of the package's local maintainer.
108 The date at which this package was last modified by \*(sw, in the form
109 .IB YYYY \- MM \- DD\fR.
112 The current architecture restriction. The architecture names are
113 separated by commas or spaces (or both). This field is omitted if there
114 is no restriction in force.
117 Successfully built architectures. The architecture names are separated
118 by commas or spaces (or both).
122 file consists of a number of entries, one per line. Comments and blank
123 lines are not allowed. Each line contains assignments for a particular
124 package, separated by semicolons rather than newlines.
126 The \*(sw program, and this manual, are \*(mw productions, in association
127 with the European Bioinformatics Institute. They were written by Mark
128 Wooding <mdw@nsict.org>. Go and ask him if you have problems.