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diff --git a/sgml/adminmanual.sgml b/sgml/adminmanual.sgml
index 8af052ba..65bf0ae8 100644
--- a/sgml/adminmanual.sgml
+++ b/sgml/adminmanual.sgml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 <title>The DXSpider Installation and Administration Manual 
 <author>Ian Maude, G0VGS, (ianmaude@btinternet.com)
-<date>Version 1.33 (Revision 1.20) February 2001
+<date>Version 1.33 (Revision 1.21) February 2001
 <abstract>
 A reference for SysOps of the DXSpider DXCluster program.
 </abstract>
@@ -21,12 +21,12 @@ A reference for SysOps of the DXSpider DXCluster program.
 <sect1>Introduction
 
 <P>
-This section describes the installation of DX Spider v1.35 on a 
-<htmlurl url="http://www.redhat.com" name="RedHat"> Linux Distribution.  
+This section describes the installation of DX Spider v1.46 on a 
+<htmlurl url="http://www.redhat.com" name="RedHat"> Linux Distribution.
+Wherever possible I will try to include differences for other distributions.  
 I do not intend to try and cover the installation of Linux or the setup 
 of the AX25 utilities.  If you need help on this then read Iains original 
-HOWTO on the <htmlurl url="http://www.dxcluster.org" name="DXSpider"> 
-website.
+installation guide that comes with the Spider distribution.
 
 <P>
 I am assuming a general knowledge of Linux and its commands.  You should 
@@ -34,13 +34,10 @@ know how to use <em>tar</em> and how to edit files using your favourite editor.
 
 <P>
 The crucial ingredient for all of this is 
-<htmlurl url="http://www.perl.org" name="Perl 5.004">.  Now I know Perl 5.005 
-is out and this will almost certainly work with it, but 
-<htmlurl url="http://www.redhat.com" name="RedHat 5.1"> comes with 5.004. 
-<em>Be Warned</em>, earlier versions of 
-<htmlurl url="http://www.redhat.com" name="RedHat"> <bf>do not</bf> come 
-with 5.004 as standard, you need to 
-<htmlurl url="ftp://upgrade.redhat.com" name="upgrade">
+<htmlurl url="http://www.perl.org" name="Perl">.  Earlier versions of
+Spider required perl 5.004, however it is now <it>STRONGLY</it> recommended
+that you use at least version 5.005_03 as this is the version being used
+in the development of Spider.
 
 <P>In addition to the standard Red Hat distribution you will require the 
 following <htmlurl url="http://www.cpan.org/CPAN.html" name="CPAN"> modules: -
@@ -50,8 +47,6 @@ following <htmlurl url="http://www.cpan.org/CPAN.html" name="CPAN"> modules: -
 
 <item>		MD5-1.7.tar.gz
 <item>		Data-Dumper-2.10.tar.gz
-<item>		FreezeThaw-0.3.tar.gz
-<item>		MLDBM-2.00.tar.gz
 <item>		TimeDate-1.08.tar.gz
 <item>		IO-1.20.tar.gz
 <item>		Net-Telnet-3.02.tar.gz
@@ -70,7 +65,7 @@ but use the above list as the earliest versions usable.
 <P>
 I will assume that you have already downloaded the latest tarball of 
 the DXSpider software and are ready to install it. I am assuming version 
-1.35 for this section but of course you would use the latest version.
+1.46 for this section but of course you would use the latest version.
 
 <P>
 Login as root and create a user to run the cluster under.  <bf><it>UNDER 
@@ -102,7 +97,7 @@ permissions.  Copy the tarball to /home/sysop and do the following.
 
 <tscreen><verb>
 # cd ~sysop
-# tar xvfz spider-1.35.tar.gz
+# tar xvfz spider-1.46.tar.gz
 # ln -s ~sysop/spider /spider
 # groupadd -g 251 spider       (or another number)
 </verb></tscreen>
@@ -208,7 +203,7 @@ It should look something like this ...
 
 <tscreen><verb>
 $ cluster.pl
-DXSpider DX Cluster Version 1.35
+DXSpider DX Cluster Version 1.46
 Copyright (c) 1998 Dirk Koopman G1TLH
 loading prefixes ...
 loading band data ...
@@ -273,6 +268,12 @@ each interface that you wish to allow connections on, use the following format .
 default  * * * * * *  - sysop /spider/src/client client %u ax25
 </verb></tscreen>
 
+or, if you wish your users to be able to use SSID's on their callsigns ..
+
+<tscreen><verb>
+default  * * * * * *  - sysop /spider/src/client client %s ax25
+</verb></tscreen>
+
 <sect1>Allowing telnet connects from users
 
 <P>