/*
 * README -- gpm-Linux 1.0
 *
 * Copyright 1995   rubini@ipvvis.unipv.it (Alessandro Rubini)
 *
 *******/

This package has finally got mature (version 1, after years).
It  tries to be a useful
mouse server for applications running on the Linux console.  Its roots
are in the "selection" package, by Andrew Haylett, and the original code
comes from selection itself. This package is intended as
a replacement for "selection", to provide additional facilities.
From 0.18 onward gpm supports xterm as well, so you can run gpm-based
applications under X, and you can easily write curses applications which
support the mouse on both the Linux console and xterm. The xterm stuff is
portable (look at sample/README).

Available clients are "The Midnight Commander", by Miguel de Icaza
and an emacs library included in this release. Dialog supports gpm-mouse
as well, but I didn't yet release the code (no time to lose ;-).

=========== QUICK INSTALL (no compile)

Binaries are no more provided, because I've an old compiler and
old libraries to link with

=========== DOCS

The directory "./doc" holds the documentation. I have switched to
'texinfo', and it seems to work. The release embeds both a postscript
file and an info one. I hope the 'info' file can be useful.
Man pages are automatically extracted from the info file, and are
installed with "make install"

=========== AVAILABILITY 

The latest release is available by ftp from iride.unipv.it:/pub/gpm
Feel free to call me to report/fix bugs.  If you are willing to write
a client I'd like to know as well.

=========== CREDITS

Look at the file CREDITS: they're so many they didn't fit here anymore