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Scope of study

All work has been done on Unix systems with TCP/IP Internet connectivity, as they represent the bulk of the Internet connected servers.

The resulting program will be able to wrap most line-oriented TCP/IP protocols. Not every protocol will be supported - for more details on which protocols can and can not be supported, refer to section 3.7.

The program resulting from this work is written in Perl (for more information on why Perl was chosen, see section 2.1), so probably they will run without significant changes --or without any changes at all-- in other operating systems in which Perl can be run, such as Windows or MacOS.[*]



Gunnar Wolf
2001-03-12