ZigZag demo diskette
====================

Designed by Ted Nelson <ted@xanadu.net>
Programmed by Andrew Pam <xanni@xanadu.net>
and Bek Oberin <gossamer@xanadu.net>
Copyright (c) 1997-1999 Project Xanadu

This is only a partial implementation, with only a few structure and view
operations; however, they are enough to allow you to create, view and explore
complex multidimensional structures in quantum hyperspace.

A forthcoming tutorial will present you with strange spaces to explore,
beginning with easy 2D concepts, the peculiar geography of this system and
operating recommendations for getting around in it comfortably and changing
your structures without losing cells or losing track of your stuff.  (This
will emphasize pragmatic adaptations to the peculiarities of this limited
implementation.)

Forthcoming documentation will explain the space, the theory, structure
operations, view operations, and the official planned extensions.

For more information, visit http://www.xanadu.net/zz/


System requirements
-------------------

386 CPU or better (or equivalent clone)
ISA and/or PCI bus motherboard (MCA by request) with at least 8M RAM
US-English keyboard (sorry!), any video card & screen
High density (1.2M or 1.4M) floppy drive (but not PCMCIA drives)


Installation instructions
-------------------------

Prepare a blank formatted floppy disk and insert it in drive A.
At a DOS command prompt:
  Change to the directory containing the zzdemo files.
  Execute the "rawrite" command.
  When asked to "enter disk image source file name", type "zzdisk".
  When asked to "enter target diskette drive", type "a:".
Alternatively, from Windows:
  Start the "rawrite.exe" program.
  When asked to "enter disk image source file name", type the full
    drive and path name of the "zzdisk" file.
  When asked to "enter target diskette drive", type "a:".

Once the disk has been created, leave it in the drive and reboot.
Your computer should boot from the diskette, load Linux, and start ZigZag.
The version of Linux provided with this demo does not include hard disk
device drivers and thus should not be able to affect your hard disk in
any way, however of course we cannot provide any legal warranties.


Diskette contents
-----------------

Linux 2.2.3		http://www.linux.org/ or http://www.linuxhq.com/
updated 1.3		ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/daemons/
ash 0.2			ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux/ports/
dialog-0.6z		ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/utils/shell/
mount 2.7l		ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux/util/mount/
mtools 3.9.1		http://www.tux.org/pub/knaff/mtools/
perl 5.004_04		http://www.perl.com/
joe 2.8			ftp://ftp.std.com/src/editors/
zigzag 0.68		http://www.xanadu.net/zz/

All binaries were compiled with GNU gcc 2.7.2.3 and statically linked
with GNU glibc 2.0.7.  Dialog and Perl were statically linked with
ncurses 1.9.9e and Perl was also statically linked with Berkeley DB
(included with glibc).

