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Tested platforms:
  Mac OS X 10.1
  HP-UX 11.11
  NetBSD 1.6.1
  FreeBSD 4.8
  OpenBSD 3.4
  SunOS 5.9
  Linux (Slackware, RedHat, Fedora Core, Debian)
  IRIX 6.5