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1.1       root        1: .TL
                      2: A System for Automatic Software Distribution
                      3: .AU
                      4: Mike Haertel
                      5: .AI
                      6: AT&T Bell Laboratories
                      7: Murray Hill, NJ  07974
                      8: .AB
                      9: .\"
                     10: .\" Single Heterogeneous network seeks automatic software distribution mechanism
                     11: .\"    \(em Greg Lindahl
                     12: .\"
                     13: With the advent of wildly heterogeneous networks, automatic software
                     14: distribution has become a nightmare.  Binaries are useless, and source
                     15: code often fails to recompile across ostensibly standard systems.
                     16: Finally, security is, as always, a concern, especially when the automatic
                     17: installation of priviliged system software is desired.  We describe
                     18: yet another attempt to address some of these issues.  Our system is
                     19: built out of the
                     20: .UX
                     21: tools, with a small amount of glue.
                     22: .AE

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