Tidies to the test-suite infrastructure for compiling auxiliary

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@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
-$Cambridge: exim/test/README,v 1.5 2006/10/31 11:37:47 ph10 Exp $
+$Cambridge: exim/test/README,v 1.6 2007/01/23 11:01:10 ph10 Exp $
 
 EXPORTABLE EXIM TEST SUITE
 --------------------------
 
 This document last updated for:
 
-Test Suite Version: 4.64
-Date: 31 October 2006
+Test Suite Version: 4.67
+Date: 23 January 2007
 
 
 BACKGROUND
@@ -436,7 +436,11 @@ bin/iefbr14        A program that does nothing, and returns 0. It's just like
 
 bin/loaded         Some dynamically loaded functions for testing dlfunc support.
 
-bin/server         A script-driven SMTP server simulation.
+bin/mtpscript      A script-driven SMTP/LMTP server simulation, on std{in,out}.
+
+bin/server         A script-driven SMTP server simulation, over a socket.
+
+bin/showids        Output the current uid, gid, euid, egid.
 
 The runtest script also makes use of a number of ordinary commands such as
 "cp", "kill", "more", and "rm", via the system() call. In some cases these are
@@ -951,7 +955,7 @@ are of the following kinds:
     may start with '<', which is not taken as part of the input data. If the
     input does not match, the server bombs out with an error message.
 
-Here is a simple server example:
+Here is a simple example of server use in a test script:
 
   server PORT_S
   220 Greetings
@@ -974,6 +978,11 @@ After a "server" command in a test script, the server runs in parallel until an
 messages to port PORT_S on the local host. When it has finished, the test
 script waits for the "server" process to finish.
 
+The "mtpscript" program is like "server", except that it uses stdin/stdout for
+its input and output instead of a script. However, it is not called from test
+scripts; instead it is used as the command for pipe transports in some
+configurations, to simulate non-socket LMTP servers.
+
 
 AUXILIARY DATA FILES
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