+This version should build on any Berkeley-derived system.
+
+There are two alternate make files: ./makefile_4.2 and telnet/Makefile_ultrix.
+
+**** Try ./makefile_4.2 if you get compile-time errors, or get
+ "multiply defined" messages for "_putchar" from the loader.
+
+**** Try telnet/Makefile_ultrix if your make(1) utility doesn't
+ support VPATH. Also try this makefile if your ld(1) doesn't
+ support the -r flag correctly.
+
+The bad news is that I've had to drop MS-DOS support. The good news here is
+that there are various versions available for MS-DOS (from FTP Software in
+Cambridge, Mass.; from IBM; from Excelan; and probably from others). The
+hooks are still there, as well as some code to update the screen. However,
+I just haven't had the time to produce a fully integrated version that would
+"just make". I suspect that a future release may have MS-DOS support back
+in it.
+
+There is no Mac support. Contact Peter DiCamillo at Brown University if
+you need a Mac tn3270.
+
+The main code change in this version is to what used to be called "telnet.c".
+This is now replaced with a version of telnet (substantially what appeared
+in the "4.3tahoe" release from CSRG) which is broken into separate files.
+
+Here is an overview of the directory structure:
+
+ api/ General library of function needed by API
+ (and, to some extent, by the rest of tn3270).
+
+ arpa/ Location of "telnet.h" (for non-4.3 systems).
+
+ ascii/ Routines necessary to handle the case of running
+ from an ASCII-oriented system (ie: unix).
+
+ ctlr/ The main part of the emulator. Handles 3270 scan
+ codes, 3270 data stream, 3270 display codes,
+ and EBCDIC. Also, the internal API function
+ lives here.
+
+ general/ Some general subroutines and data structures of
+ interest to the emulator only.
+
+ sys_curses/ System-dependent code for a curses-based environment.
+
+ sys_dos/ System-dependent code for an MS-DOS-base environment.
+ Remember that this is included for your developmental
+ needs (ie: it doesn't work).
+
+ telnet/ Where the telnet portion of tn3720 is built.
+
+ tools/ Various tools. Most of these are used during the
+ build process. One (prt3270) is a debugging tool.
+ One (mkmake.y) is quite horrible, and attempts to
+ transform Unix makefiles into PC makefiles.
+
+ utilities/ The source for tnrecv, which receives files
+ (fairly slowly) from an IBM host. We don't
+ include the IBM side, because we really aren't
+ happy with very much of it (except that it does,
+ sometimes, work). Hopefully, when we get past
+ the beta stage we will have more robust (and
+ complete) code to share.
+
+The fact that system dependancies are isolated should make it easy
+to port to other systems. I would like to hear about problems porting
+to new areas.
+
+In the August, 1987 README file, the following appeared:
+
+> WHAT IS NOT IN THIS VERSION (sigh):
+
+> 1) We don't have a native X version yet. I am waiting for X version 11
+> (though this is mostly an excuse; I could have done version 10,
+> but I haven't had the time).
+
+> 2) We don't process structured fields.
+
+> 3) We don't do 3270-style graphics (ala 3193, say).
+
+> The above three items WILL be in the next version, which should come
+> along "any day now" (say 6 months) (but, they WON'T be in the production
+> release of this version).
+
+The next piece of bad news is that none of the above have happened yet,
+and I don't know when they might occur.
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