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2 Many bugs have been fixed since the last release.
3 Some bugs surely remain.
5 As of this release, the GNU C library has been ported to the following
8 alpha-dec-osf1 (mostly finished)
10 i386-gnu (for Hurd development only)
23 Porting the library is not hard. If you are interested in doing a port,
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27 The GNU C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
28 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
29 Because of the United States export restriction on DES implementations,
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31 library. There is an extra distribution tar file just for crypt; it is
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