What's New in CASL (custom audit scripting language) v2.0
                 for Linux Red Hat 5.x
       Copyright (c) 1999 by Network Associates, Inc.,
       and its Affiliated Companies. All Rights Reserved.

	
Thank you for using CASL. The What's New file contains important 
information about the current version of CASL. 

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CAREFULLY READ THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS IN THE FILE 
"LICENSE.TXT" ACCOMPANYING THIS DOCUMENT. IF THE FILE 
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SUBSEQUENT USER ARE AGREEING TO BE BOUND BY ALL OF THE 
TERMS AND CONDITIONS IN THE FILE "LICENSE.TXT." IF YOU DO 
NOT AGREE TO ALL OF THOSE TERMS AND CONDITIONS, DO NOT 
INSTALL, USE, OR MODIFY THIS SOFTWARE PRODUCT. 

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WHAT'S IN THIS FILE

- Features
- System Requirements
- Documentation
- Known Issues
- Contacting Network Associates

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FEATURES

CASL is a high-level programming language 
designed to write programs (often called scripts) in 
a text editor that simulate information gathering checks 
on networks. To write programs that simulate an information 
gathering check, you need to write code that constructs packets 
and then sends those packets to a host on a network just as an 
actual information gathering check would. You can execute 
the programs you create in CASL to determine if a network is 
vulnerable the information gathering check simulated by 
the programs. 

The source code for CASL is also included in this release. 
You can use the source code to extend the functionality of 
the custom audit scripting language. Additionally, you can 
modify the operating system portions of the source code if 
you'd like to use the custom audit scripting language with 
operating systems other than Linux. 
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SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

There are minimum system requirements that must be met to install 
and use CASL. The minimum system requirements are as follows:

- Red Hat Linux operating system 5.x
- 133 MHz Pentium processor
- 32 MB of RAM
- 3 MB of free disk space

If your system does not meet the above requirements, you need to 
upgrade the system accordingly before installing CASL.

For information on installing and uninstalling CASL, refer to 
Chapter 1 of the CASL Programming Guide, "Installing CASL."

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DOCUMENTATION

Your distribution of CASL includes the following 
documentation:

- WHATSNEW
- LICENSE

Also included separately with this release in PDF format 
is the following manual which can be viewed on-line 
as well as printed:

- CASL Programming Guide

NOTE:  The CASL Programming Guide is provided as a PDF file. 
If you are viewing the CASL Programming Guide using a PDF viewer, 
we strongly recommend that you view the file using Adobe Acrobat 
Reader for Linux.  

You can download a copy of Acrobat Reader for Linux 
from the Adobe Systems Incorporated web site at 
http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html.
Follow the download instructions, including selecting the Linux 
platform version. Then click Download to download Adobe 
Acrobat Reader to your system.

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KNOWN ISSUES

1.  CASL will not send a packet if: 1) it cannot resolve the hardware
address of the default gateway; or 2) there is no default gateway. 

2.  Packets may be received slowly from the local machine.

3.  This release of CASL was tested with Linux Red Hat 5.x only.

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CONTACTING NETWORK ASSOCIATES

CASL is provided to you as freeware, and therefore is not supported
by Network Associates Customer Care department. You can, however,
send CASL related questions to the CASL discussion list 
casl@lists.nai.com. To subscribe to the CASL discussion list, 
send an e-mail to casl-request@lists.nai.com and enter "subscribe"
in the e-mail message. You do not need to enter a subject for 
the e-mail message.

CASL is also available as a commercial product with 
Network Associates' CyberCop Scanner. CyberCop Scanner is a scanning 
tool that determines both system and network security vulnerabilities. 
It is available for both Windows NT and Linux operating systems. 

If you are interested in getting information 
about CyberCop Scanner, which includes the commercial version of 
CASL, please call Network Associates at (408) 988-3832 Monday-Friday, 
6:00 A.M. - 6:00 P.M. Pacific time. Or, visit our site on the 
World Wide Web at http://www.nai.com.

