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This archive contains the following files:
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	dlibs.a
	dstart.o

	bzero.s
	initargs.c
	lmemcpy.s
	perror.c

The only file which is the same as for other versions is dstart.o, which
is included for completeness.

dlibs.a contains all the changes listed below:
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initargs.c - The part of this file which extracts argv[0] from its
	     parent's stack has been removed. This was done so that
	     monitors such as monst would not crash the program being
	     run (and its a bit naughty anyway :-) )

lmemcpy.s  - This file contains the routines memcpy and lmemcpy. Both
	     routines failed if the source and destination were not
	     aligned together. Also, memcpy failed as it attempted to
	     pull a long off the stack as the length argument instead of
	     a word value. This was particularly irritating because if
	     the xARG method was used this routine was called. Thus
	     parents using the xARG method now function correctly, ie
	     gemini/mupfel.

bzero.s    - bzero also failed because it took a long instead of a word
	     off the stack. I also improved it by clearing longs instead
	     of words if the destination is aligned appropriately.

perror.c   - This has been fixed as documented elsewhere (One of the
	     printing functions did not include the argument stderr).

l.b.brown@newcastle.ac.uk