This directory contains the source code for OSE.

Further information is available in the files listed below:

  ANNOUNCE	Announcement of OSE.

  ARCHIVE	Information about mail server access to an archive of
		OSE related material. Available material includes latest
		patches, lists of known problems etc.

  COPYING	Copyright/License for OSE.

		Make sure you read this file.

  PACKAGE	Contains information about what version of OSE this is.

  PROBLEMS	Descriptions of problems which you may encounter and
		what you can do to fix them or work around them.
		
		It is recommended that you read through this before
		attempting to install OSE.

  INSTALL	Instructions for installing OSE under UNIX.

		Don't try and install OSE without reading this as
		some configuration is required before attempting
		to compile and install the libraries. Also, OSE
		requires GNU make to be built, so running your
		standard make program in the top directory is not
		going to work.

  CHANGES-*	List of changes made to OSE in each version.

  BORLAND	Instructions for creating a copy of the OTC library
		which can be built under Borland C++ or other DOS
		C++ compilers such as Watcom C++. The file is also the
		shell script which is run to create the copy.

  NOMAKEIT	Notes on what is required if you intend to use the
		OSE C++ libraries from your own make environment
		and not makeit.

  TEMPLATES	Notes on what templates are used internally to other
		templates. This information will be needed if you are
		manually expanding templates.The file also contains
		information about hidden templates which need to be
		marked in an ObjectStore schema file.

Note that the build environment and library documentation is not provided
in the source distribution. If you would like postscript versions of the
documentation, you should fetch the documentation tar file from the same
ftp site as you obtained the source distribution. The names of the
documentation files will have the form:

  ose-VERSION.doc.tar.gz	A4
  ose-VERSION.doc.us.tar.gz	US Letter
  ose-VERSION.doc.html.tar.gz	HTML

The documentation is also available online via WWW at:

  http://www.telstra.com.au/docs/ose/doc/ose-home.html

