GeoLab was developed at the:

		 Departamento de Ciencia da Computacao
			   IMECC - C.P. 6065
		   Universidade Estadual de Campinas
			 13081-970 Campinas SP
				Brazil

       It is a result of work done by the following people:

       Design: ..................... Pedro  J. de Rezende

       Specification: .............. Pedro  J. de Rezende
                      .............. Welson R. Jacometti

       Kernel Implementation: ...... Welson R. Jacometti
                              ...... Cesar  N. Gon

       Algorithms Implementation: .. Welson R. Jacometti
                                  .. Cesar  N. Gon
                                  .. Laerte F. Morgado


       e-mail: geolab-request@dcc.unicamp.br

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First, you should read the file COPYRIGHT in this directory.

To run GeoLab, just execute  bin/run-geolab [-f datafile]

GeoLab 1.0 has  been tested ONLY on SparcStations.   If you port it  to
other  platforms,  please,  let us know by sending email to the address
above.

After you  have used it for  a while to  get a  feeling  for the way it
operates, try looking at the  sample  algorithm implementations in  the
subdirectory  samples.  To  compile  those  samples,  as  well  as  any
algorithms  you  decide to  add  to GeoLab's  dynamically linked shared
libraries, you WILL NEED Sun's C++ compiler (CC). There is no other way
for  now.  (If you  port GeoLab to GNU's  C++ compiler,  please, let us
know.) See also the file HOW-TO-COMPILE

GeoLab's complete source  codes are provided, but you  do not need them
(or any  of its object  files (*.o)  for that  matter) to  add your own
algorithms, -- unless you plan to port GeoLab to other  platforms -- as
long as you use dynamic linking properly. See the files in  samples/ as
well as those in  include/ (particularly, take a  look at the makefiles
samples/*/Make*).

Documentation is currently scarse. Start by reading the file:
                           papers/Geolab.ps

Enjoy.

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