This is the SHIFT development kit.              @(#)CONTRIBUTORS	1.3 04/14/97 CERN-CN-SW/SC
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The contributors to SHIFT software/hardware implementation are   :

Jean-Philippe Baud for  the Tape Subsystem, the Stager
Julian Bunn for         the simulation
Fabrizio Cane   for     the Disk Pool Manager code (DPM)
Vincent Dore for        the SHIFT operations
Gunter Folger for       the CERNLIB intrgration
Gabor Gyori             the RFIO analysis, network measurements
Felix Hassine for       the DPM, RFIO, RTCOPY
Frederic Hemmer for     the Remote File I/O system (RFIO)
Eric Jagel for          the simulation, various papers and proposals
Ashok Kumar for         the RFIO, network measurements
Ian McLaren             the EPIO integration
Judith Richards for     pratical considerations
Les Robertson for       project management, stage scripts, alpha tester,
			various papers, proposals, budgets.
Ben Segal for           the Ultranet, various papers
Stefan Schael (MPI) for the port of the RFIO client to Linux
Jamie Shiers for        the interface to FATMEN
Antony Simmins for      the RFIO (Windows/NT), sconfig
Antoine Trannoy for     the remote tape handler, the message daemon
Bill Weeks (SLAC) for   many bug corrections and improvements
Igor Zacharov for       the interface to physicists, various comments
Julius Zoll for         the Zebra intregration

The software source code is layered as follows

<TOP>
<TOP/h>                 general include files
<TOP/man>               manual pages
<TOP/common>            common code
<TOP/copytape>          copytape code
<TOP/doc>               papers and documentation
<TOP/dpm>               dpm code
<TOP/notes>             implementation notes
<TOP/lib>               source level working libs
<TOP/rfio>              the RFIO subsystem
<TOP/rtcopy>            the remote tape copy system
<TOP/stage>             the stager
<TOP/sysreq>            the sysreq interface
<TOP/examples>          miscellaneous examples

The file MANIFEST describes each of the files purpose

The file PORTING contains important considerations for operation, installation
and/or porting.
