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-.\" Manual page for `sw-info' files.
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-.TH sw 1 "25 May 1999" "EBI tools"
-.PD 1
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-.SH NAME
-sw-info \- description of sw data files
-.\"
-.SH DESCRIPTION
-The
-.B .sw\-info
-file contains blank lines, comment lines, and assignments. A blank line
-contains only whitespace; a comment line has a
-.RB ` # '
-as its first non-whitespace character: both are ignored. An assignment
-has the form
-.sp 1
-.in +5n
-.I name
-.RB [ = ]
-.I value
-.in -5in
-.sp 1
-where
-.I name
-is one of the field names described below, and
-.I value
-is any text which doesn't contain newlines, semicolons or null bytes.
-Any leading whitespace is stripped; trailing and internal space is
-preserved.
-.PP
-The fields available are:
-.TP
-.B package
-The package's name.
-.TP
-.B version
-The version number of the package.
-.TP
-.B maintainer
-The user name of the package's local maintainer.
-.TP
-.B date
-The date at which this package was last modified by \*(sw, in the form
-.IB YYYY \- MM \- DD\fR.
-.TP
-.B only\-arch
-The current architecture restriction. The architecture names are
-separated by commas or spaces (or both). This field is omitted if there
-is no restriction in force.
-.TP
-.B arch
-Successfully built architectures. The architecture names are separated
-by commas or spaces (or both).
-.PP
-The
-.B sw\-index
-file consists of a number of entries, one per line. Comments and blank
-lines are not allowed. Each line contains assignments for a particular
-package, separated by semicolons rather than newlines.
-.SH AUTHOR
-The \*(sw program, and this manual, are \*(mw productions, in association
-with the European Bioinformatics Institute. They were written by Mark
-Wooding <mdw@nsict.org>. Go and ask him if you have problems.
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