		Release notes: nm 1.7c  (Mar 10) 
				(nm.c was written in 1992 by G Flierl)

	This is the first readme.nm file.

	nm 1.7c fixes a bug that caused a segmentation fault writing
some error messages.  The error messages never got written.  nm 1.7c
also has a makefile modification to enable the nm 1.7 pipe-reading feature.
Previous versions of the make file turned this feature off by default.

	The nm 1.7b release was created to
include a makefile modified so that newer build software would not
criticize it for using obsolete build features.  There was no 1.7b
source file.

	nm 1.7a was created in Jun 2005 (not Jun 2004, as some of its
internal comments asserted).  It implemented some bug fixes

	nm 1.7 was a major release whose notable feature is the ability
to read nm input from a pipe as well as a file.
	nm accepts a single argument, which identifies its input.  
By default, this argument is a file specification.  In nm 1.7, if this 
argument is enclosed in parentheses, it is assumed to be a command 
(possibly with parameters) whose output will be input to nm.  Within 
this command, piping and I/O redirection are not allowed.
Example:
	nm file.dat
	   and
	nm "(cat file.dat)"
should produce the same output if run in a command line environment.

	There is paper documentation for the input format, etc for
nm.  The paper documentation may be named "JGOFS data system, UNIX: 
User's Guide".  
