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                            *       README      *
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     Edward Groenendaal, 4th April 1992

     The X Desktop Manager is a graphical shell for the X Window System, 
     it provides mechanisms for all the usual shell activities and is 
     intended to reduce the training necessary for UNIX novice to become
     productive on your system.

     Ramons Santiago, June 25, 1992

     Reference Platforms: gcc 2.2.1, SunOS 4.1.1, X11R5 PL12, X11R5 Server
			  Sun cc, SunOS 4.1.1, X11R5 PL12, X11R5 Server

     General Platform:    ANSI compliant C compiler, ideally 'gcc' OR
			  a standard C Compiler
                          X11R4 or X11R5
                          X11R4/Xaw or X11R5/Xaw
                          lex (or flex) and yacc (or bison)

     Installation instructions: 

     1) Unpack the shar archives in order, the archives unpack into the 
        current directory.

     2) If you have 'imake(1)' edit the Imakefile for your system, 
        otherwise edit the Imakefile.Old files in the main source
        directory and the Xedw and regexp directories using the 
        Imakefile as a guide.

     3) If you have 'imake(1)' execute the command 'xmkmf' to make the
        Makefile, followed by 'make Makefiles'.
        If you DO NOT have imake then copy the Makefile.Old to Makefile
        in the main source directory AND the Xedw and regexp directories.

     4) execute 'make all' to make xdtm.

     5) execute 'make install install.man' to install xdtm and the xdtm
        manual page.

     If you have any problems send email to me at : santiago@sinet.fgs.slb.com
