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- Copyright (C) 1994
- German National Research Center for Computer Science (GMD)
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- This is the READ.ME file for the Cellular Automaton Tool (CAT).
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- Cellular Automaton Tool (CAT)
- Release 1.00
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- 7 November 1994
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- Table of Contents
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- 1. What is CAT?
- 2. Installation
- 3. Documented problems which aren't fixed yet
- 4. Legal notes
- 5. Authors
- 6. Bug reports and comments
- 7. File manifest for CAT_EXE.ZIP and CAT_DOC.ZIP
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- What is CAT?
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- The Cellular Automaton Tool (CAT) is a tool to build and visualize
- cellular automatons in an easy-to-use way. Its pascal-like language
- CARP (Cellular Automaton Programming Language) is a means to build
- cellular automatons of your own or to transfer samples from the
- literature.
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- As most intuitive approaches to a cellular automaton, CAT uses
- its so-called "STATE" window to show the state of each cell of a
- cellular automaton by a certain color. In most cases, changes of
- the model may easily be noticed by recognizing uprising patterns or
- changing colors. Apart from a representation in colors, the state of
- all cells can also be expressed in decimal or hexadecimal figures.
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- Installation:
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- We suggest that you create the following directories:
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- C:\CAT
- C:\CAT\DOC
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- Unzip the zipped archive CAT_EXE.ZIP into the C:\CAT directory and
- the archive CAT_DOC.ZIP into the C:\CAT\DOC directory. The unzipped
- doc-files are appropriate to be printed by Winword 2.0 in A4 format.
- If you have other paper formats, you must reformat the doc-files.
- The doc-files are splitted up to avoid memory problems.
- A complete CAT manual is formed by the doc-files CM_PART0.DOC to
- CM_PART5.DOC.
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- A listing of the files in the archive is below; they include the
- executables, some CAT program files and Borlands BWCC.DLL
- (copyright Borland).
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- After that, you can start CAT
- - by doubleclicking the CAT.EXE within the file manager
- environment or
- - by using the windows setup tool to add the CAT program
- to any program group. Click then the dice-form CAT icon.
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- Documented problems which aren't fixed yet:
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- Known restrictions and errors are mentioned in appendix D of the CAT
- manual. Further hints are given in the online help.
- If you experience problems with GDI.EXE, try to disable shadow ram
- and cache in your PC's bios setup.
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- Legal notes
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- Copyright (C) 1994
- German National Research Center for Computer Science (GMD)
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- Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its
- documentation for any purpose is granted to non-commercial
- organisations and for personal use, provided that the above copyright
- notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and
- this permission notice and warranty disclaimer appear in supporting
- documentation, and that the name of GMD not be used in advertising or
- publicity pertaining to distribution of the software without specific,
- written prior permission.
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- For any use for profit or other commercial gain please contact the
- GMD (email adress below).
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- GMD disclaims all warranties with regard to this software, including
- all implied warranties of merchantability and fitness. In no event
- shall GMD be liable for any special, indirect, or consequential
- damages or any damages whatsoever resulting from loss of use, data or
- profits, whether in an action of contract, negligence or other
- tortious action, arising out of or in connection with the use or
- performance of this software.
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- GMD
- Postbox 13 16
- D-53754 Sankt Augustin
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- email: parmoc@gmd.de
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- Authors:
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- This software was written by Igor Jaceniak, Stefan Focke,
- Uwe Link and Georg Juenger, GMD.
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- Bug reports and comments:
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- Send mail and comments to parmoc@gmd.de
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- Have fun with it.
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- FILE MANIFEST FOR THIS DISTRIBUTION
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- CAT_EXE.ZIP expands to:
- CAT.EXE The CAT executable
- CAT.HLP CAT Windows Help application
- BWCC.DLL library (copyright 1989, 1990, 1991 Borland Intl)
- (may be exchanged by your national BWCC.DLL)
- README.1ST You're looking at it...
- LICENSE.DOC Legal notes to be noticed
- various CAT, CAR sample programs
- CAS files
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- CAT_DOC.ZIP expands to:
- CM_PART0.DOC to CM_PART5.DOC a complete CAT Manual including a reference guide for the language the CAT models are programmed in.
- The files may be printed by use of e.g.
- Winword 2.0. If you want to use another format
- than A4, you must reformat the documents.
- LICENSE.DOC Legal notes to be noticed
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- END of READ.ME file for the Cellular Automaton Tool (CAT).
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