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			Not-So-Bad Distribution
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This is the source release of Not-So-Bad Distribution, an Open WWW-based
Authenticating Software Distribution system.  This is free software, released
under the terms of the GNU General Public License; see the COPYING file for
details.  The home page of NSBD is
    http://www.bell-labs.com/nsbd
Up-to-date NSBD binary packages are available on multiple Unix platforms,
so check the web page first to see if your platform is supported before
compiling it.

NSBD is written primarily in TCL/TK, and you need a tcl7.6 and tk4.2
installation or later to compile it.  You will also need at least "tcl2c"
from the tcl "plus patches", and you will need the entire tcl and tk plus
patches if you want to build a standalone NSBD binary that can run on a
system that does not have TCL/TK installed.  Links to these packages are on
the NSBD home page.

To compile NSBD on unix, go to the "unix" directory and type "configure"
and "make install".  All the standard GNU autoconf "configure" options
should work, but the only one that has been tested is "--prefix" for the
directory prefix to install into.  The NSBD binary is relocatable since it
is completely self-contained, but some scripts that are useful to package
maintainers are installed into a lib directory.

To use NSBD with any kind of security, you will also need PGP.

Most of the documentation is on the home page and in the man page.  The
same information that's available in the man page is available in the
builtin help system in the nsbd program.

- Dave Dykstra <dwd@bell-labs.com>
  PGP fingerprint 94 9F 3A 36 05 7B E9 62  EA 4F F2 19 82 C5 FE BE
