### starplot-0.91.2 README file

    StarPlot - Copyright (C) 2000, 2001 Kevin B. McCarty <kmccarty@princeton.edu>
    Web page: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/starplot.html

    DESCRIPTION

    StarPlot is a GTK-based program, written in C++, which can be used
    interactively to view three-dimensional perspective charts of stars.  It is
    licensed under the GNU General Public License.  If you find StarPlot useful,
    or want to submit a bug report, feature request or patch, please drop me an
    email!

    CONTENTS

    This directory should include the following files:

    	README		This file.
    	INSTALL		Instructions for installing StarPlot.
    	COPYING		The GNU GPL, version 2.
    	Makefile	Top-level Makefile; edit variables if necessary.
    			See INSTALL for more information.
    	version.h	Defines current StarPlot version.
    	classes/	Contains base classes for StarPlot.
    			These classes are GUI-agnostic.
    	convert/	Contains source code for the starconvert utility.
    	gui/		Contains the StarPlot user interface.
    			These classes require GTK version 1.2.
    	data/		Contains StarPlot example data files.
    	doc/		Contains HTML documentation and man pages.

    INSTALLATION

    For installation instructions, see the file INSTALL.  For documentation about
    how to use the program, see the HTML pages in the doc directory.  These
    pages will be installed to the directory /usr/local/share/doc/starplot (unless
    you edit the Makefile to put it somewhere else).

    DATA FILES

    StarPlot comes with only two small example data files.  This (a) makes it
    easier to download, and (b) reduces the need to worry about copyright issues
    within the program source tree.  Other data files can be downloaded and
    installed from the StarPlot web page.  Please read the copyright information
    in the COPYING and README files of those data sets.

    SPECIAL NOTE

    I would like to thank my brother Jason for working with me on programming
    StarPlot with a GUI written in C++, back when we were still playing with it
    on Windows 95/NT.  This was a vast improvement over the original QBASIC
    version I wrote in high school.  If anyone wants to see the QBASIC version,
    I still have the file ;)