Mapil Installation Instructions
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	Mapil requires python and either PGP 2.x or PGP 5.0 to run.
It is recommended that Python 1.5 or later be used.

PGP can be obtained at http://web.mit.edu/network/pgp in the US, or
http://www.ifi.uio.no/pgp/download.shtml in other countries.

Python is available from http://www.python.org/python/.  There are a
number of prebuilt binaries, so installing it on your system will
probably be no harder than a tar -C / -xvzf command.


	To install, first run the provided installation script,
'Make.py' and follow the instructions it gives you.  This only creates
a few files, so you do not have to be root to run it.  If everything
goes well it will create a 'mapil' script and a 'mapil.pyc' byte
compiled file.

	You will have to set the appropriate ownership on the files
and copy them to the appropriate directories yourself.  On my system I
have:

	/home/ben/prog/python/mapil/mapil.py
	/home/ben/prog/python/mapil/mapil.pyc
	/usr/local/bin/mapil
	/usr/man/man1/mapil.1
	/usr/man/man5/mapilpolicies.5
	/usr/man/man5/mapilrc.5


	If you want to try Mapil out before installing, you can run
the non-byte compiled script 'mapil.py' in any directory you want
before or after running 'Make.py'.  You can view the man pages, as
usual, by 'groff -Tascii -man mapil.1 | less' or something similar.

	Although you may be very happy with the defaults, you can read
the man pages and create your own configuration file if you wish.  The
enclosed sample ('sample-mapilrc') may be of help.

