README file for XITE
This document provides some basic information about XITE (X-based Image
processing Tools and Environment) and describes the files needed to install
the software.
Contents
There is a World Wide Web home page for XITE. You can reach
it with a program such as Mosaic, Netscape or Lynx, using the URL
http://www.ifi.uio.no/~blab/Software/Xite
.
XITE is available with anonymous ftp from
ftp.ifi.uio.no
(presently 129.240.64.21
) in
/pub/blab/xite
.
Remember to use binary transfer mode for the files with extension .Z or .gz.
- The X Window System, Version 11, Release 5 or higher.
- A PseudoColor or GrayScale 8-plane, or DirectColor or TrueColor 24-plane
visual. PseudoColor or DirectColor is preferable.
- For conversion between XITE BIFF image files and TIFF files: An ANSI
C compiler, like GNU gcc.
Most of these files are also contained in xite.tar.gz (and xite.tar.Z).
They will be placed in the etc and etc/.install directories below the XITE
home directory during installation.
- Read before installing XITE
- WHAT_IS_XITE
- Read this to see whether you want to install XITE at your site.
- FUNC_PROG_LIST
- One-line summaries of manual page descriptions for XITE
programs, functions and BIFF file format.
- CHANGES
- A list of changes between versions.
- BUGS
- A list of known bugs.
- COPYRIGHT
- The XITE Copyright notice (XITE is free software).
- Needed to install XITE
- REGISTER
- Register your copy of XITE by completing this and mailing it to
xite-register@ifi.uio.no (XITE is free software).
- README.INSTALL
- A condensed description of how to install XITE.
- SysAdmManual.ps.Z
- A more thorough description of how to install XITE.
- install_xite
- The shell script which installs XITE.
- xite.tar.gz
- This contains all the source files, manual pages, example images,
data, scripts, User's Manual, Programmer's Manual and System
Administrator's Manual.
- xite.tar.Z
- Same as xite.tar.gz, but compressed with "compress" instead of "gzip".
If you have "gzip", then don't get xite.tar.Z.
- Miscellaneous
- VERSION
- XITE version number.
- bugReport
- Template for issuing bug reports.
XITE should run on the following platforms