                  Gardens Point Oberon Compilers
		  ------------------------------

The compilers available in this directory are licensed commercial products.
You are welcome to use them and distribute free copies of them for trial or
educational use.  They must not be resold or distributed for sale with other
programs which are for sale.  See SUPPORT.DOC for information about obtaining
the commercial package from a GPM distributor.

This software is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.


File locations:
  ftp.fit.qut.edu.au:/pub/gpm_modula2/oberon
  ftp.psg.com:/pub/modula-2/gpm/oberon


A complete documentation set has been placed in this directory, comprising:
        Library Reference Manual
        User's Guide to GPO

Look for:
        manuals.ps.zip   (Postscript)
        manuals.tex.zip  (Latex)

Release notes including installation instructions are available in:
        release.ps.zip   (Postscript)
        release.tex.zip  (Latex).


If you have e-mail access, we urge you to join the GPM mailing list.
It provides a forum for queries about the GPM implementation of Modula-2,
and Oberon-2, bug reports and discussions about possible enhancements.
To join the mailing list, send mail to majordomo@dstc.qut.edu.au with the
subject line blank and the body of the message containing:
    subscribe gpm
    info gpm
    end

Any mail sent to gpm@dstc.qut.edu.au will get automatically forwarded to
all subscribers on the list. The development team are of course subscribers. 


gpo-linux
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gpo-linux produces assembly language compatible with gas and gdb, as output. 
It also uses the standard libc.a archive.  Thus it requires the host system
to have a version of gcc installed on it.  As well this distribution requires
some binaries and library modules from gpm-linux.  Thus it requires that you
install gpm-linux as well and place the "m2lib" directory on your O2LIB path.
Code compiled by gpo-linux uses the same procedure calling conventions as
gpm-linux (and gcc) for easy interfacing to foreign language modules.

Quick installation:
1) Install gpmlinuxApr95, in say gpm/  (See seperate README)

2) Create an installation directory, say gpo/

3) In this directory extract the distribution
       gzip -d gpolinuxApr95.tar.gz
       tar -xf gpolinuxApr95.tar

4) You will get the following directories
       bin/          put this directory on your PATH
       libsrc/       sources of some of the libraries (in C, M2 and Oberon)
       o2lib/        put this directory on your O2LIB environment variable
       o2sym/        put this directory on your O2SYM environment variable

5) Set up PATH, O2SYM and O2LIB as noted above
   e.g.  O2LIB=.../gpo/o2lib:.../gpm/m2lib
	 O2SYM=.../gpo/o2sym

