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  1. The Network Time Protocol (NTP) Version 4 Distribution
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  3. This is a distribution of the Network Time Protocol (NTP) Version 4
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  4. sources and documentation. NTP can be used by Unix, DEC VMS and
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  5. Microsoft Windows NT platforms to synchronize the computer clock to
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  6. external sources of time, such as other NTP time servers or a local
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  7. radio clock. The daemon included in this distribution can operate as a
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  8. server, a client, or a relay from a set of servers to a dependent client
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  9. population on a local net. This distribution includes the daemon itself,
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  10. plus utility programs and supporting documentation.
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  12. You are welcome to the lot, with due consideration of the copyright
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  13. information in the COPYRIGHT file. You are also invited to contribute
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  14. bugfixes and drivers for new and exotic radios, telephones and sundials.
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  15. This distribution is normally available by anonymous ftp as the
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  16. compressed tar archive ntp-<version>.tar.gz in the pub/ntp directory on
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  17. huey.udel.edu and <version> is the version number. The current stable
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  18. and development version numbers can be found at <http://ntp.org>.
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  20. A considerable amount of documentation, including build instructions,
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  21. configuration advice, program usage and miscellaneous information is
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  22. included in the ./html directory of this distribution. The intended
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  23. access method is using a web browser such as netscape; however, the
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  24. pages have been formatted so that viewing with an ordinary text editor
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  25. is practical. Start the browser on the ./html/index.html page, which
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  26. contains additional instructions and hotlinks to the remaining pages.
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  27. Some hotlinks for the larger documents, such as related technical
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  28. memoranda, reports and papers, lead to other web sites where this
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  29. information is stashed. We apologize for the inconvenience this may
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  30. cause for users without Internet and World Wide Web access.
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  32. If you are an old hand and just want to build the distribution, you
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  33. might find the INSTALL file a useful shortcut. A descriptive list of all
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  34. files in the base directory of this distribution is in the README file.
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  35. A list of "significant" changes for the release is in the NEWS file.
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  37. If you're interested in helping us test pre-release versions of ntpd,
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  38. please look in <ftp://huey.udel.edu/pub/ntp/testing/>.
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  40. David L. Mills (mills@udel.edu)
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  41. 21 June 1998
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