This is to avoid incompatibility between 64/32-bit client/server.
While at it, convert all time values in the protocol to timeval
to avoid Y2K38 problem.
This is a verbatim copy of the files at that stage of the repository that was
built from the CVS import. It allows future development to see a bit of recent
history, but without carrying around the baggage going back to 1997. If that
is really required, git grafts can be used.