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File name:	UPDATE.TXT			Revision date:	1999.04.12
File author:	Ronald Andersson		Creation date:	1999.04.12
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During 1998 and early 1999 several developments have been made that make
STinG considerably more powerful than it previously was. This meant that
many things were changed in a way that made changes of all STinG parts
necessary before a new release. That is the major reason it took so long
for this release to be made...

NB:  Old STinG components, such as STING.PRG and STXs etc, can't be mixed
     with the new ones.  That could cause malfunction, or even 'bombs'.
     This does not mean clients of course, since they are independent of
     internal changes of the STinG standard. Clients remain compatible.

STING.CPX has been updated to the new STinG standards, so please do not
try using it with any old (released before 1999) STinG components.  The
other CPXs are the same as before, since they do not use changed elements.

NB_1:  A newer STNGPORT.CPX has been produced by Peter, and released for
       beta testing, which does use new functions.  Unfortunately that
       CPX has problems in how it accesses the Masquerade port.  Rather
       than letting this delay the release it is preferable to use the
       old one, as included here. It is compatible to the latest version
       of MASQUE.STX, as included in this release

NB_2:  STING.CPX does not _look_ changed to the naked eye, but it is.
       It was updated by hex_edit patching of 10 structure offsets to
       make it access DRIVER structs by the new standards.  Apart from
       that it is identical to the one produed by Peter for the last
       public release.

NB_3:  As always, the CPX are distributed in _unset_ state.  This means
       that you must open them and set them up as needed in your system,
       then save those settings.  This is especially important for the
       STING.CPX.  Before it is activated no STinG traffic can work.

You can find more information on all this in the STING.HYP document.
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