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+LAM - Readme
+============
+
+  A set of PHP-scripts to administrate entries of a LDAP server
+
+  alpha Release 0.0.1 - May 2003
+  ------------------------------
+  http://sourceforge.net/projects/lam/
+
+    Copyright (C) 2003 Michael Duergner <michael@duergner.com>
+                       Roland Gruber <mail@rolandgruber.de>
+                       Tilo Lutz <tilolutz@gmx.de>
+                       Leonhard Walchshäusl <dechutes@gmx.net>
+
+    This program 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 of the License, or
+    (at your option) any later version.
+
+    This program 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.
+
+    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+    along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+    Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
+
+  Requirements:
+    PHP4
+    openldap (2.1.12 or >)
+    a web-browser
+
+  Summary:
+    with LAM you can easily manage user, group and machine accounts stored in
+    the LDAP server over a web interface. In the moment it supports
+      -displaying the user/group/host entries
+      -deleting entries
+      -adding new entries
+      -editing entries
+      -filtering and sorting
+      -access management
+
+  Download:
+    You can get the newest version at http://sourceforge.net/projects/lam/
+
+  Credits:
+    Please see the Documentation.txt/.html file.
+
+  Installation:
+    Please see the INSTALL file.
+
+  ChangeLog:
+    Now in ChangeLog
+
+  Documentation:
+    Basic documentation available in Documentation.txt/.html
+
+
+    Have fun!
+        The LAM devel team