README for VXP - Visual X windows Programming Interface

		 	     Yong Chen 

		stdyxc05@pip.shsu.edu, ychen@bmc.com

 	       Copyright (C) 1994, 1995  by Yong Chen

		     Last Modified: Apr. 6, 1995

DISCLAIMER:

     This is beta release 2.0 of VXP -- Visual X windows Programming
     Interface using OSF/Motif widget set.

     This software is provided as is with no warranty expressed or
     implied. I hope you find it useful, but I won't be held responsible
     for any damage that may occur from reading, compiling, installing,
     using, or even thinking about it.

     See the file COPYRIGHT for details of copyrights.

CREDITS:
     Thanks following people to provide me the access to some platforms:
	Stefan Nivall (nivall@ae.chalmers.se), Sun Solaris 2.3, SunOS 4.1.x
	Anders Bolinder(abo@ae.chalmers.se), Sun
	Todd Gruben (t-gruben@tamu.edu), IBM RS/6000 AIX 3.2
	Henry G. Juengst (juengst@saph2.physik.uni-bonn.de), i386 NetBSD 1.0
	
     Thanks people in computer services at Sam Houston State University
     provide me HP platform also ftp, www services.

DISTRIBUTION:

o Distribution method:

     o via FTP:
	ftp.shsu.edu	/pub/VXP
     o via WWW:
	http://www.shsu.edu/~stdyxc05/VXP/Distribution.html
     o www home page:
	http://www.shsu.edu/~stdyxc05/VXP/

o Installation:

     VXP is distributed in binary format for different platforms. The  
     following list includes platforms that VXP supports and their 
     package name respectively.

     File name convention is:
	vxp<version>.<platform>.[tar].[Z|gz]

     For example: version 2.0 on HP-UX will be
	vxp2.0.HP-UX.gz

     Platforms

     1. Hewlett-Packard: HP9000,  HP-UX 9.0x

     2. Silicon Graphics: IRIX 5.x

     3. Digital Equipemnt Co.: Alpha AXP, OSF/1

     4a. Sun: Sun Sparc, SunOS 5.3, Solaris 2.3

     4b. Sun: Sun Sparc, SunOS 4.1.x

     5. IBM: IBM RISC System/6000, AIX 3.2

     6. x86: NetBSD 1.0

     7. x86: Linux X11R5/Motif 1.2, X11R6/Motif 2.0

     8. x86: SCO
 
     9. x86: Novell UnixWare 1.1, UnixWare 2.0

    10. x86: BSD/OS 1.1
  
    11. x86: Unisys 4.0

    12. x86: FreeBSD 2.1, X11R6/Motif 1.2

INSTALLATION:

     Since VXP is distributed in binary format, only thing need to be
     done to install is to unpack the package and make sure the file
     vxp has the permission to execute. 

     For example, to install VXP on HP9000 running HP/UX, the package is
     vxp.HP-UX.tar.gz or vxp.HP-UX.tar.Z or vxp.HP-UX.tar. 
     Here is how to unpack:
	% gzcat vxp.HP-UX.tar.gz | tar -xvf -
     or
	% zcat vxp.HP-UX.tar.Z | tar -xvf -
     or 
        % tar xvf vxp.HP-UX.tar

     This will create a sub-directory vxp under current directory. The 
     executable for VXP system is "vxp". Some samples can be found in
     vxp/samples sub-directory and vxp/docs contains documentations in
     ascii format and postscript format.

     If the file is not tar-ed, which means it is only a binary file, 
     you need to download samples and documentation separately.

PROBLEMS:

     See the file PROBLEMS for discussion of various often-reported
     problems. Please read this file *before* reporting a problem.

REPORTING BUGS/KUDOS:

     When reporting bugs, problems, suggestions or contributions,
     please be sure to send them to the right place. I (Yong Chen)
     am really only interested in the working of VXP itself. Anything
     related to X, Xt and Motif should go to MIT and OSF respectively.

HISTORY:
  
     See web page URL at http://www.shsu.edu/~stdyxc05/VXP/QA.html.