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Copyright \copyright{} 1992 Ross~N.~Williams.
\xn{Ross}{Williams}\xx{copyright}{notice}

Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual
provided that the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved
on all copies.\note{This paragraph was copied from the GNU Emacs manual to
avoid my having to get a legal opinion on something I could cook up.}

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This manual is for hackers! Anyone who wants to
bash,
diddle,
frob,
grind,
mangle,
patch,
poke,
toggle,
twiddle,
zap,
or generally hack FunnelWeb should at least take a look at this manual.

This document has been created to serve two purposes:

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\item To act as a repository for specific design and implementation
information not appropriate to be included in program comments.

\item To guide those interested in modifying the program.

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As a result, this document has grown in fits and starts.
This manual is not a particularly polished or well-balanced document
but it should be of assistance to those (including myself) involved with
modifying FunnelWeb.

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\leftline{\b{Ross~N.~Williams}}
\leftline{\b{Adelaide, Australia}}
\leftline{\b{May~1992}}

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Many thanks to \b{David Hulse}\xn{David}{Hulse}
(\p{dave@cs.adelaide.edu.au}) for
translating the original version of FunnelWeb
(FunnelWeb~V1) from Ada\x{Ada} into~C
and getting it to work on Unix and a PC.
The C code written by David (FunnelWeb~V2) formed
the basis of FunnelWeb~V3, but was
entirely rewritten during the intensive refinement and feature-injection
period leading up to this release (FunnelWeb~V3 is about three times
the size of FunnelWeb~V2).
Nevertheless, without this important first translation step,
I would probably not have found the motivation to develop FunnelWeb to its
present state.

Thanks go to \b{Simon Hackett}\xn{Simon}{Hackett}
(\p{simon@internode.com.au}) of Internode Systems
Pty Ltd for the use of his Sun, Mac, and PC, for assistance in porting
FunnelWeb to the Sun and PC, and for helpful discussions.

Thanks go to \b{Jeremy Begg}\xn{Jeremy}{Begg}
(\p{jeremy@vsm.com.au}) of VSM Software Services
for the use of his VAX, and for assistance with the VMS-specific code.

Thanks to \b{Barry Dwyer}\xn{Barry}{Dwyer} (\p{dwyer@cs.adelaide.edu.au})
and \b{Roger Brissenden}\xn{Roger}{Brissenden} (\p{rjb@koala.harvard.edu})
for trying out FunnelWeb Version~1 in 1987 and providing valuable feedback.

Thanks to Donald Knuth\xn{Donald}{Knuth}
for establishing the idea of literate programming in the first place.

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\leftline{\b{Ross~N.~Williams}}
\leftline{\b{Adelaide, Australia}}
\leftline{\b{May~1992}}

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\thing{References:} All references are set in bold and are
cited in square brackets in the form
\b{[}$&lt;$\i{firstauthor}$&gt;&lt;$\i{year}$&gt;$\b{]}.
All references cited in the text appear in the reference list and the index.

\thing{Special terms:} New or important terminology has been set in bold
face and appears in the index.

\thing{Typesetting:} This\x{typesetting}
document was prepared by the author using Andrew
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implementation (OzTeX\x{OzTeX}) of the
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typesetting system running on a Macintosh-SE.\x{Macintosh}

\thing{Graphics:} All diagrams have been constructed out of text using
the \LaTeX{}\x{LaTeX} \p{verbatim} environment so as to allow this document to
be disseminated electronically and printed using \LaTeX{} without access
to the author's drawing tools.

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