$Id: README.txt,v 4.1 2000/12/11 09:54:19 cibrario Rel $

   saturn - A poor-man's emulator of some HP calculators
   Copyright (C) 1998-2000 Ivan Cibrario Bertolotti

   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
   (at your option) any later version.

   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
   GNU General Public License for more details.

   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
   along with the documentation of this program; if not, write to
   the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
   59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA.

   For more information, please contact the author, preferably by email,
   at the following address:

   Ivan Cibrario Bertolotti
   IRITI - National Research Council
   c/o IEN "Galileo Ferraris"
   Strada delle Cacce, 91
   10135 - Torino (ITALY)

   email: cibrario@iriti.cnr.it


To get started with the saturn software, follow these steps:

- If you have an user-level binary distribution, read the file
  BUILD_INFO.txt and check that the platform on which the
  saturn software was built is compatible with yours.

- If you have a source distribution, follow the instructions
  of INSTALL.txt to build the binaries and, optionally,
  to install them.

- Read the documentation of the saturn software, above all chapter 2.
  You must build the documentation yourself as explained in INSTALL.txt
  if you have a source distribution; instead, if you have a binary
  distribution, both info and PostScript files are already there.

- If you are in a real hurry and wish to emulate an HP49 as soon
  as possible, run the ./quick_start shell script.