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+ This package is heavily based on two other packages:
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+   - p3nfsd-5.4 by Rudolf Koenig (rfkoenig@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de)
+     an nfs daemon for Psion series 3 and 5
+   - plp_1_7 by Philip Proudman (phil@proudman51.freeserve.co.uk)
+
+ I want to thank both authors for their nice packages and for making
+ these available under GPL which makes it possible for me to
+ create this package (which of course is distributed under GPL as well)
+
+ What i did:
+
+ I modified and improved Philip's code to support more (nearly all?)
+ rfsv32 commands and to gain speed (approx 4 times) and stability
+ (properly reconnects on lost serial link).
+ Rudolf's code originally used a homegrown protocol which needs a
+ separate program running on the Psion. I changed his code to use
+ the socket-based client-code from Philip's rfsv program thus
+ eliminating the need for any software beeing run on the Psion.
+ The rfsv code and some other stuff went into a lib (both shared
+ and static available). I also removed all Psion-3 related stuff,
+ because a) i can't test it and b) Sibo support is dropped by
+ Psion.
+
+ Since version 0.5, there is also starting support for RPC-service
+ on the Psion. Note the new commands "ps", "kill" and "run" in
+ plpftp. This support was only possible because of Alexander Thoukydides'
+ excellent documentation at
+ http://www.btinternet.com/~thouky/software/psifs/plp.html
+ Thanks a lot for that. Also Psion-3 support is now added by Matt Gumbley
+ (matt@gumbley.demon.co.uk)
+
+Have fun.
+ -Fritz