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DESCRIPTION:
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  WWW-page Access Counter
  version 1.2

  A CGI-program keeping track of the number of times a
  HTML-page is visited. This is done through a small
  GIF-image which is inserted into the HTML-page.

  Heini Withagen, heini@w4.nl
  September 1, 1995

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INSTALLATION:
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1. Edit the configuration file 'conf.h' and modify
   the directories to meet the local directory structure.

2. Edit the Makefile and change the settings of a few
   variables to match your system settings. 

3. Do a 'make'

4. Copy the images directory to the place you specified
   in 'conf.h'.

5. If compilation was successfull, do 'make install'
   to put the resulting program in the cgi-bin directory.

6. Insert something like the following into your HTML-page
   to activate the counter:

   <IMG SRC="/cgi-bin/nph-count?width=5&link=/dummy/index.html">

   the link-argument should be different for counters on different
   pages. A good choice for the link argument is the URL of a certain
   page. Check the FAQ for additional arguments which are recognized.
   The FAQ also contains some pointers on what to do if errors occur.

7. Please read the disclaimer in the NOTICE file.

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CREDITS:
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  - This package makes use of the gd graphics library 
    by Thomas Boutell, see http://siva.cshl.org/gd/gd.html
    COPYRIGHT 1994 BY THE QUEST CENTER AT COLD SPRING HARBOR LABS.

  - Mark Overmeer, markov@nlr.nl
    For pointing out the final bug which kept resetting
    the counters.

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