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		Welcome to pei - Perl Empire Interface

If you have never used pei before, then you should find out how to
install pei and run it by reading the file called "INSTALL".

The major changes in the upgrade from 1.7 to 1.8 are:

* Fixed a bug in sneweff which gave funny numbers for ships at sea.

* Fixed a bug in the ship/unit/plane parsers which was resulting
  in tools like "fus" telling you about ships that you didn't have.

* Fixed a number of bugs which are critical for people running pei
  under perl5 (no multi-args to undef in perl5).

* A number of cosmetic changes regarding how columns are lined up in
  the output of the various tools.

Special thanks to the following for submitting the bug reports & corrections:
  Michael Turner <m_turner@cs.wisc.edu>
  Steven A White <sa2white@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
  Jorg Schray <schrayj@lvu.ph.lancs.ac.uk>
  Drake Diedrich <dld@random.chem.psu.edu>

For a complete list of changes from 1.7 to 1.8 see the "CHANGES" file.

The latest version of pei is available on the Planet's Empire
Archives:
  http://www.empire.net/~children/PEA/player/clients/
  ftp://ftp.empire.net/pub/empire/player/clients/
mirrored at:
  http://www.santafe.edu/~empire/PEA/player/clients/
  ftp://ftp.santafe.edu/pub/empire/player/clients/
