------------------------------------------------------------------------ The authors of this software are Kiem-Phong Vo and David Korn. Copyright (c) 1991, 1996 by AT&T Labs. Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any purpose without fee is hereby granted, provided that this entire notice is included in all copies of any software which is or includes a copy or modification of this software and in all copies of the supporting documentation for such software. THIS SOFTWARE IS BEING PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY. IN PARTICULAR, NEITHER THE AUTHORS NOR AT&T LABS MAKE ANY REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY OF ANY KIND CONCERNING THE MERCHANTABILITY OF THIS SOFTWARE OR ITS FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sfio - Safe/Fast I/O Library David G. Korn and Kiem-Phong Vo Sfio is a portable library for performing stream I/O. It provides similar functionality to the ANSI C Standard I/O functions collectively known as Stdio. However, it is generally faster and more robust than most Stdio implemen tations. The current distribution of Sfio is called Sfio97. This version of the library has been ported to all known UNIX platforms including various flavors of IRIX, SUNOS, Solaris, Ultrix, MVS/OpenEdition, Linux and BSDI. The library handles 64-bit streams on platforms that support 64-bit files. Software Installation Notes The package should be unpacked in a root installation directory, say ``software'', with the following command: uncompress < sfio97.src.unix.cpio.Z | cpio -icd uncompress < sfio97.src.unix.tar.Z | tar -xvf - This shall create the following subdirectories under software: src, man, include, lib, bin The README file tells how to build Sfio. The source code for Sfio is under software/src/lib/sfio. A set of regression tests is available in the subdirectory Sfio_t. These tests can be exercised by running the shell script runtest after building the library. If you have comments/questions/problems, send mail to Phong Vo at: kpv@research.att.com