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$Id: readme.txt,v 1.16 2002/05/27 07:59:01 tnussb Exp $


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What is the TIGCC Tools Suite?
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The TIGCC Tools Suite is a collection of tools for the PC and on-calc tools to
support programmers who are using the TIGCC development environment for TI89
and TI92plus.


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IMPORTANT: If you have any questions about the TIGCC Tools Suite, please
use the Message Board of the TICT HQ Website (http://tict.ticalc.org).
Forum "TIGCC Tools Suite And eBook Generator" will focus on all topics about
this Suite.

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To use the ebook generator or any other tool, make sure that the bin directory
is added to your path.
Please check your systems documentations on how to do this.



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LIST of included PC Tools
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To get a quick list of the included PC tools just call tthelp. To get more
detailed help each tool will print out additionally usage informations if you
call it without any parameter.



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What is necessary to build the tools in this release?
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The tools may be compiled on any platform with any ANSI-C compiler.
Until now no makefiles are supplied, but just a simple batchfile to build the
tools using the LCC-WIN32 compiler.

Here are some addresses where you can get the LCC-WIN32:

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/software/lcc/index.html
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~lcc-win32/
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Heights/9069/


The batchfile suppose that upx is installed on your computer.
UPX (Ultimate Packer for Executables) is used to pack the executables to
make them much smaller.

UPX can be found at the Official UPX Homepage at:

http://upx.sourceforge.net

For the on-calc tools you'll need the TIGCC development environment which can
be downloaded from the file archives of http://www.ticalc.org or from the
official TIGCC site at http://tigcc.ticalc.org



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Notes about the copyleft
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The Tools in this release may be distributed by any other website for
non-commercial use only.

The author makes no representations or warranties about the suitability
of the software, either express or implied. The author shall not be liable for
any damages suffered as a result of using or distributing this
software.

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IF YOU USE or RE-USE any PART of this SUITE, PLEASE GIVE CREDITS to US
INCLUDING a LINK to our WEBSITE (http://tict.ticalc.org)

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... and the credits go to ...
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(1) Xavier Vassor and the rest of the TIGCC team for the GNU C port
(2) Zeljko Juric, for his great library coming with TIGCC, his patience to
    answer my "neverending" questions and helping me out on many topics
    when I got lost.
(3) Rusty Wagner (rusty@acz.org) for his incredible Virtual TI
(4) Denis Bernard (b.denis@libertysurf) for his ASM optimization of the
    decompression algorithm
(5) Dave W. (tenordave@hotmail.com) for the on-calc hexeditor
(6) Olivier Armand, Kevin Kofler, Greg Dietsche and Sebastian Reichelt for
    their improvements of ttstart
(7) Lionel Debroux (xdanger1@caramail.com) for his "update & extending"
    work of many of the tools
(8) Francesco Orabona (bremen79@infinito.it) for his work on ttbatt and
    his size improvements of the ebookreader
(9) Thanx to Austin Chu (qarv@yahoo.com) for pointing me out optimizations
    of the eBookReader.
(10) ... and, of course, me (thomas.nussbaumer@gmx.net) for the rest


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Contact team members of the TI-Chess Team
===============================================================================

Thomas Nussbaumer <thomas.nussbaumer@gmx.net>
Marcos Lopez      <marcos.lopez@gmx.net>
Lionel Debroux    <lionel_debroux@yahoo.fr>

Suggestions, bug reports and similar are VERY welcome.

Please use the TIGCC Tools Suite Forum at the TICT HQ MessageBoard at
http://tict.ticalc.org for any comments.


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Revision History ---> see history.txt file
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