Documentation Guide

• RDist 7.0 README - A guide to this product.
• RDist 7.0 Release Notes (doc/RELEASE_NOTES.html) - Supported platforms, platform specific notes, and new features.
• RDist 7.0 Installation (INSTALL.html) - Installation requirements and installation instructions including how to compile from source.

Known Issues

The following is a list of known issues:

• This version of RDist does not currently work with older versions prior to RDist 7.0. This obviously needs to be fixed before the final release of RDist 7.0.

Supported Systems

This release should compile and work on most Unix and Linux based OS's. The following table indicates what platforms are known to work for this release:

OS	Comments
HP-UX 11.00
Red Hat Linux 6.2 - 7.1	Most any version of Linux should work
Solaris 2.5.1 - 8

System Requirements

• A C compiler. GNU GCC is recommended.
• The yacc or similiar program such as GNU Bison

• Approximately 1-5MB of disk space.

Major New Features/Improvements

Changes added to 7.0

This release contains the following significant new features:

• RDist is Open Source. RDist is now once again distributed under the BSD License. Click here to view the license.
• Much improved portability through use of GNU autoconf (configure).
• Safely encode file names with special characters.
• File compression during transmission is now available via -o compress.
• New -o def{owner,group} options to set default owner and group.
• New -o followlinks option.
• New -o history option to keep multiple versions of updated files.
• New -o updateperm option to update permissions instead of transmitting the entire file.
• $RDIST_OPTIONS is now checked and parsed for options.
• $RDIST_RSH is used if set as the remote shell program to run.
• Protocol debugging output is much improved.
• Latest security bug fixes.
• 3+ years worth of bugs have been fixed.

For a complete list of changes, please see the CHANGES file.