README FOR THE MPATROL LIBRARY DOCUMENTATION


This directory may contain preformatted documentation for the mpatrol library.
The documents will have been generated from the TeXinfo source (or from the
LaTeX source of the reference card) using a variety of tools and are provided
partly for convenience and partly for people who do not have suitable formatting
tools installed on their system.  In all cases these documents can be
regenerated from the source, although there may be slight changes in some files
due to differences in the systems that they were generated on.  Note that the
UNIX manual pages are not considered part of this documentation (although they
are kept up to date) and are located in a separate directory.


The following files contain all of the information necessary to generate each of
the preformatted files.

  * mpatrol.texi
        Format:    GNU TeXinfo
                   http://texinfo.org/
        Notes:     The unprocessed source of the mpatrol manual.

  * refcard.tex
        Format:    LaTeX
                   http://www.tug.org/
        Notes:     The unprocessed source of the reference card.

  * source.tex
        Format:    LaTeX
                   http://www.tug.org/
                   The unprocessed source of the source code documentation.

  * texinfo.tex
        Format:    TeX
                   http://texinfo.org/
        Notes:     The TeXinfo macro package required by the DVI and PDF
                   versions of the mpatrol manual.

  * images/mpatrol.txt
        Format:    ASCII text
                   http://www.bbsinc.com/iso8859.html
        Notes:     The mpatrol logo required by the ASCII text, GNU Info and
                   AmigaGuide versions of the mpatrol manual.

  * images/mpatrol.jpg, images/test.jpg, images/gcc.jpg, images/cpp.jpg,
    images/cc1.jpg, images/collect2.jpg & images/trace.jpg
        Format:    Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) colour image
                   http://www.jpeg.org/
        Notes:     The mpatrol logo and graph files required by the HTML version
                   of the mpatrol manual.

  * images/mpatrol.eps, images/test.eps, images/gcc.eps, images/cpp.eps,
    images/cc1.eps, images/collect2.eps & images/trace.eps
        Format:    Adobe Encapsulated Postscript (EPS) greyscale image
                   http://www.adobe.com/
        Notes:     The mpatrol logo and graph files required by the DVI and
                   Postscript versions of the mpatrol manual.

  * images/mpatrol.pdf, images/test.pdf, images/gcc.pdf, images/cpp.pdf,
    images/cc1.pdf, images/collect2.pdf & images/trace.pdf
        Format:    Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) colour image
                   http://www.adobe.com/
        Notes:     The mpatrol logo and graph files required by the PDF version
                   of the mpatrol manual.


The following files are all formatted for on-line documentation.  They generally
contain little or no formatting codes, leaving the final formatting up to the
viewer program.

  * mpatrol.txt
        Format:    ASCII text
                   http://www.bbsinc.com/iso8859.html
        Generator: GNU MakeInfo
                   http://texinfo.org/
        Viewer:    Any text viewer
        Notes:     Plain text with no formatting codes.

  * mpatrol.info
        Format:    GNU Info
                   http://texinfo.org/
        Generator: GNU MakeInfo
                   http://texinfo.org/
        Viewer:    GNU Info
        Notes:     Contains hypertext links but no formatting codes.

  * mpatrol.guide
        Format:    AmigaGuide
                   http://www.lysator.liu.se/amiga/code/guide/amigaguide.guide
        Generator: GNU MakeGuide
                   http://www.aminet.org/~aminet/dirs/aminet/dev/gg/
        Viewer:    AmigaGuide or MultiView
        Notes:     Contains hypertext links with basic formatting codes.

  * mpatrol.html
        Format:    Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
                   http://www.w3c.org/MarkUp/
        Generator: GNU MakeInfo
                   http://texinfo.org/
        Viewer:    Any web browser
        Notes:     Contains hypertext links with formatting codes, but contains
                   links to JPEG images rather than embedding them.


The following files are all formatted for printed manuals.  All can be viewed
with a variety of programs, not just the ones listed here.

  * mpatrol.dvi, refcard.dvi & source.dvi
        Format:    Device Independent format (DVI)
                   http://www.tug.org/
        Generator: TeX
                   http://www.tug.org/
        Viewer:    XDVI
                   http://www.math.berkeley.edu/~vojta/xdvi.html
        Notes:     Contains links to EPS images rather than embedding them.
                   Bitmapped fonts are built on demand to a suitable resolution
                   when viewing or printing.

  * mpatrol.ps, refcard.ps & source.ps
        Format:    Adobe Postscript
                   http://www.adobe.com/
        Generator: DVIPS
                   http://www.radicaleye.com/dvips.html
        Viewer:    Ghostview
                   http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/ghostview/
        Notes:     Contains embedded EPS images and Postscript Type 1 fonts.

  * mpatrol.pdf, refcard.pdf & source.pdf
        Format:    Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF)
                   http://www.adobe.com/
        Generator: PDFTeX
                   http://www.tug.org/applications/pdftex/
                   PStill
                   http://www.this.net/~frank/pstill.html
        Viewer:    XPDF
                   http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/
        Notes:     Contains hypertext links along with embedded PDF images and
                   Postscript Type 1 fonts.