Reprap Host Software README

Date: DATE
Author: Jonathan Marsden

Version: RELEASE

This is a very early attempt at a quick package of the Reprap host
software.  It should run on Linux, Windows, and Macintosh.

DOCUMENTATION:

See http://www.reprap.org for project details.

See http://www.reprap.org/bin/view/Main/DriverSoftware for the closest
thing we have to a user manual for this host software at this stage.

Please use http://forums.reprap.org to ask about this package.

NOTES:

(1) You need a working Java 1.5.0 or later JRE to run this.
(2) You need to manually install the Java3D libraries.
(3) You need to manually install the rxtx libraries ( http://www.rxtx.org )
(4) You need to manually install the .jar file from j3d.org, which
    you can download from

    http://reprap.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/*checkout*/reprap/trunk/reprap/host/lib/j3d-org-java3d-all.jar

    until we have a better idea of where this can be obtained!    

KNOWN BUGS:

(1) This software still uses too much memory, but is a lot better than
    it used to be.

(2) Installing the libraries by hand is a bit awkward.

(3) Probably many other bugs, less serious than (1) above!  See
    http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=159590 for more.