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- This is the Utah Raster Toolkit distribution version 3.0 of June, 1990.
- The Utah Raster Toolkit is now distributed from the University of
- Michigan and the University of Utah.
-
- Major changes from version 2.0 are detailed (as much as possible) in the
- CHANGES file. One change to be aware of, if you have toolkit programs
- of your own is that many function and data structure names have
- changed. See CHANGES for details.
-
- The source-only distribution contains the following subdirectories
- cnv: File conversion directory. A collection of
- utilities for converting to and from the Utah
- RLE format.
-
- etc: Contains some other sample programs that may
- or may not be useful, but may be interesting to
- look at if you are writing RLE programs.
-
- get: Contains programs to display RLE images on various
- types of displays, and instructions on how to
- roll your own (see the README)
-
- include: Necessary ".h" files for the library and toolkit.
-
- lib: Sources for the RLE library.
-
- man: Manual pages for the library and tools.
-
- tools: Sources for the tools.
-
- tex: Source for dvi to rle conversion program.
- Also has dviselect program. Requires U of
- Maryland MC-TeX distribution (see README).
-
- img: Contains a couple of uuencoded (use uudecode
- to get them back) RLE files.
-
- The FTP distribution contains the following directories, as well.
- The following two directories are in urt-doc.tar.Z.
- doc: Contains long narrative descriptions of
- the RLE file format and the Toolkit.
- Documentation files are in Scribe ".mss" format,
- PostScript ".ps" form, and cleartext (".doc).
- A formatted version of the toolkit paper appeared
- in the Proceedings of the USENIX 3rd Graphics
- Workshop.
- doc/pics: Postscript form of the raster images for the
- toolkit paper.
-
- img: Includes some interesting RLE image files.
- Distributed as urt-img.tar.Z.
-
- To make and install the toolkit, you should:
- 0. If you got the source-only distribution, remove all the
- urt.kit?? and kit*isdone files:
- rm urt.kit?? kit*isdone
-
- 1. Edit config/urt (I recommend making a copy and editing that
- instead) to reflect your site configuration. The
- definitions in this file should be relatively self-
- explanatory. See config/README for more details. If you
- want to understand what is going on, look at the comments
- in the makedef.awk script.
-
- You should also look at the other files in the config
- directory, as one of them may already be correct for you.
- All the configuration files compile as many of the
- conversion tools as possible for the given machine. If you
- don't want some of these tools, comment out the corresponding
- lines.
-
- 2. Configure the makefiles by running
- Configure config/urt
- If you have made a different config file, substitute its
- name for config/urt, of course. Once you have done this
- once, you can use 'make config' instead.
-
- 3a. If you have set the "RL" path in the config file to
- something besides "lib" (presumably the same as LIB_DEST),
- you must first
- cd lib; make install
- Then do 3b.
-
- 3b. Run 'make' in this directory. This will
- compile the library and tools you have selected.
-
- 4. Run 'make install' in this directory. Alternatively, you
- can combine 3a, 3b, and 4 by just running 'make install'
- right away.
-
- This version of the toolkit has been successfully compiled on the
- following machines (with the corresponding configuration file
- indicated in parentheses):
- Sun 3 (SunOS 4) with cc (config/sun3) and gcc
- Sun 4 (SunOS 4) (config/sun4)
- DEC 3100 (Ultrix 3.1) (config/dec)
- IBM RT (AIX ??) (config/ibm-rt)
- SGI Iris 4D (IRIX 3.2) (config/iris4d)
- Apollo (SR 10.2) (config/apollo)
- Stardent GS1000 (config/stellar)
- HP 9000/3xx,8xx (HP-UX 7.03) (config/hpux300 config/hpux800)
- Macintosh (A/UX) [note - getmac program does not work on A/UX]
- Macintosh (MacOS) with MPW [at least library and getmac program]
- Cray 2 (UNICOS) (config/cray)
-
- If you find bugs, make improvements, write new tools or conversions,
- or have questions or suggestions, please send them to the address below.
-
- If you want to write your own tool, we suggest that you start with
- tools/rleskel.c. This has all the right code it it for opening image
- files for input and output, for processing multiple images per file,
- error checking, etc.
-
- Our thanks to some beta testers (and contributors):
- Eric Haines, 3D Eye
- Gregg Townsend, CS Dept., U of Arizona
- John Peterson, Apple Computer
- And to all of you who submitted new programs or ideas for new
- features, especially Craig Kolb (Yale), whose 'rayshade' program provided
- (indirectly) the incentive for this release.
-
- A special thanks to Martin Friedmann, MIT Media Lab, who almost
- totally revamped the 'getx11' program, so that it now works correctly,
- and is the most featurful of all the toolkit programs.
-
- Spencer W. Thomas
- EECS Department
- University of Michigan
- Ann Arbor, MI 48109
-
- Rod G. Bogart
- Computer-Aided Engineering Network
- University of Michigan
- Chrysler Building
- Ann Arbor, MI 48109
-
- James Painter
- Computer Science Department
- University of Utah
- Salt Lake City, UT 84112
-
- When you get a copy of the toolkit, from whatever source, please let us
- know at one of the addresses below. That way, we will be able to keep
- you apprised of changes and updates.
-
- toolkit-request@cs.utah.edu
- toolkit-request@caen.engin.umich.edu
-