Documentation.

NEWS

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+Version 1.3.0 - July 19, 2011
+
+- Massive infrastructure update to support pool failover.
+- Accept multiple parameters for url, user and pass and set up structures of
+pool data accordingly.
+- Probe each pool for what it supports.
+- Implement per pool feature support according to rolltime support as
+advertised by server.
+- Do switching automatically based on a 300 second timeout of locally generated
+work or 60 seconds of no response from a server that doesn't support rolltime.
+- Implement longpoll server switching.
+- Keep per-pool data and display accordingly.
+- Make sure cgminer knows how long the pool has actually been out for before
+deeming it a prolonged outage.
+- Fix bug with ever increasing staged work in 1.2.8 that eventually caused
+infinite rejects.
+- Make warning about empty http requests not show by default since many
+servers do this regularly.
+
+
 Version 1.2.8 - July 18, 2011
 
 - More OSX build fixes.

README

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-This is a multi-threaded CPU and GPU miner for bitcoin.
+This is a multi-threaded multi-pool CPU and GPU miner for bitcoin.
 
 License: GPLv2.  See COPYING for details.
 
@@ -66,6 +66,22 @@ Native WIN32 build instructions (on mingw32, on windows):
 
 Usage instructions:  Run "cgminer --help" to see options.
 
+
+EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ON USAGE:
+
+Single pool, regular desktop:
+
+cgminer -o http://pool:port -u username -p password
+
+Single pool, dedicated miner:
+
+cgminer -o http://pool:port -u username -p password -I 8
+
+Multiple pool, dedicated miner:
+
+cgminer -o http://pool1:port -u pool1username -p pool1password -o http://pool2:port -u pool2usernmae -p pool2password -I 8
+
+
 Also many issues and FAQs are covered in the forum thread
 dedicated to this program,
 	http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=28402.0
@@ -100,4 +116,4 @@ I is current Intensity (changes in dynamic mode).
 NOTE: Running intensities above 9 with current hardware is likely to only
 diminish return performance even if the hash rate might appear better. A good
 starting baseline intensity to try on dedicated miners is 8. Higher values are
-there to cope with future improvements in hardware.
+there to cope with future improvements in hardware.