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Use the concepts, examples and other content at your own risk.
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As this is a new edition of this document, there may be errors
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and inaccuracies, that may of course be damaging to your system.
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the author(s) do not take any responsibility for that.
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> You are strongly recommended to take a backup of your system
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> The latest version number of this document may be
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obtained from
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> The Northants LUG, UK Project Pages
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> Thanks go to the following people for help with information and
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proof reading of the document.
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> Scot W Stevenson for the original X terminal mini-howto document,
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from 1995, on which some of the material for the section on advanced
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xdm-config configurations was obtained.
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> Members of the Northants LUG, UK for proof reading the document.
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> The writers of the XDM, Xserver man pages and the default XDM scripts.
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>Credits for 0.05</DT
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> Everyone who commented on the earlier versions, including Neil Zanella,
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Rafael Herrera, Paul Hornshaw, Clive Jones, Robert de Geus, Alex Schenkman,
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Richard Kaszeta, Malcolm Herbet
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>Credits for 1.00</DT
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> The following people provided feedback and comments which have led up to
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the 1.00 release: Alan James, Stephen Eglen, Malcolm Hunter, Holgar Hoffman,
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Patrick Rynhart, Amedeo Lanza, Alexander Skopalik, Mike Banahan.
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> Feedback is most certainly welcome for this document. Without
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your submissions and input, this document wouldn't exist. Please
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> I probably ought to mention some details about the following at
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some point ...
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> Debugging problems with XDM.
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> FAQs and common mistakes
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