
				EBNETD
			 CD-ROM book servers


This EBNETD distribution contains three server commands: ebnetd, ndtpd
and ebhttpd.  They are servers for accessing CD-ROM book on remote
host via TCP/IP.  They can run on UNIX derived systems.

  * ebnetd
    ebnetd is a server of EBNET protocol which is designed to
    communicate with EB Library.

    EB Library is a C library for accessing CD-ROM book.  Also ndtpd
    and ebhttpd use EB Library.  Using ebnetd, EB Library applications
    can access CD-ROM books on a remote server.  For more details
    about EB Library, see:

        http://www.sra.co.jp/m-kasahr/eb/.

  * ndtpd
    ndtpd is an NDTP (Network Dictionary Transfer Protocol) server.
    The first implementation of the NDTP esrver is `dserver'.  ndtpd
    has upper compatibility with dserver-2.2.  The web page

	http://www.sra.co.jp/people/m-kasahr/ebnetd/ndtp-clients.html

    lists NDTP clients which can talk with ndtpd.

  * ebhttpd
    ebhttpd is a WWW (World Wide Web) server.  It supprts HTTP/1.0
    and HTTP/1.1 (Hypertext Transfer Protocol version 1.0 and 1.1).

The servers support CD-ROM books of EB, EBG, EBXA, EBXA-C, S-EBXA and
EPWING formats.  CD-ROM books of those formats are popular in Japan.
Since CD-ROM books themseves are stands on the ISO 9660 format, you can
mount the discs by the same way as other ISO 9660 discs.  The servers
can run as a standalone daemons by default, but can also run as children
of `inetd'.

EBNETD uses EB Library to access CD-ROM book.
Before install EBNETD, you have to install EB Library into your machine.

EBNETD is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any
later version.

   EBNETD is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
General Public License for more details.

   In addition, you must follow the licenses of your CD-ROM books.
Though EBNETD is free software, your books may not be free.  Don't open
your books to unlicensed hosts nor users.

See the file NEWS for a list of major changes in the current release.
See the file INSTALL for compilation and installation instructions.
See also the file UPGRADE for upgrading from an earlier version.

You can get the latest EBNETD from
	ftp://ftp.sra.co.jp/pub/misc/eb/

You can get information about EBNETD from
	http://www.sra.co.jp/people/m-kasahr/ebnetd/

Mail comments and bug reports to
	m-kasahr@sra.co.jp
in Japanese or English.
