WARNING, this is still a BETA release!
It is still a work in progress and might not compile on all machines

It has been installed on the following OpenVMS platforms:

1) OpenVMS/Alpha 6.2, DEC C V5.0-003,                  SOCKETSHR_TCP
2) OpenVMS/Vax   5.3, GCC 2.7.2 (Pat Ranking edition), SOCKETSHR_TCP

Pre-Requisites:

  This Tin version builds currently only against the SOCKETSHR shareable image.

  SOCKETSHR provides a complete BSD compatible socket library.
  It requires the NETLIB software to interface with the underlying TCP/IP
  transport. NETLIB provides an interface to all available TCP/IP
  transports for OpenVMS.

  For building the image either MMS or MMK is required.

  SOCKETSHR is freeware and available from:

    http://alder.cc.kcl.ac.uk/fileserv/zip/socketshr_src_09d-5.zip
    http://www.ifn.ing.tu-bs.de/ifn/sonst/socketshr.html
    ftp://ftp2.kcl.ac.uk/zip/socketshr_src_09D-5.zip

  NETLIB is freeware and available from:

    http://alder.cc.kcl.ac.uk/fileserv/zip/netlib022.zip
    http://www.madgoat.com/netlib.html
    ftp://ftp2.kcl.ac.uk/zip/netlib022.zip

  MMK is freeware and available from:

    http://www.madgoat.com/mmk.html

Quick Install:

    $set def [.src]

    On ALPHA:

    $mms /macro=(alpha=1)

    or on a VAX

    $mms /macro=(vax=1)

    or on a VAX with GCC

    $mms /macro=(vax=1,gnuc=1)

install with:

    Define tin as a foreign command:

    $tin :== $device:[dir.sub]tin.exe


Install at your own risk.

Please do NOT mail any bug-reports concerning THIS version to Iain Lea but
to tin-bugs@tin.org. Before mailing a bug-report please check if you are
using the latest release, and if not, please upgrade first! Have a look at
the TODO file for known bugs. If you still think you found a bug, please use
tins mail_bugreport function (shift-R) and write in english.

The latest release is available at:
<ftp://ftp.tin.org/pub/news/clients/tin/current/>
or it's mirrors.

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