
Welcome to Wingz 1.4.1 for Linux
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Important files:

README    - this file
INSTALL   - installation and running instructions
REGISTER  - information on how to register your copy of Wingz
SHAREWARE - explains what shareware is

About Wingz
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Wingz is an easy-to-use, graphical spreadsheet for business and technical
professionals, that allows users to create sophisticated presentations
and reports, as well as user interfaces and end-user applications.

The product is available today on UNIX(R) operating systems under
OSF/Motif(TM) and OPEN LOOK(R) graphical interfaces, in addition to
Microsoft Windows(TM), Apple(R) Macintosh(R), OS/2(R) Presentation
Manager(TM), and NeXTstep(R).

Wingz was originally developed by Informix(R) but effective from
January 30th, 1995 Informix granted exclusive distribution rights to IISC.

About Investment Intelligence Systems Corporation (IISC)
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IISC was founded in Washington, DC and London in 1981. The company now
has offices in London, Kansas, Paris and New York. Primary product
offerings and development efforts are centered around the banking and
insurance markets with products for dealing support platforms, treasury
management, unit trust and portfolio management.

IISC has also provided specialised applications for non-financial
environments. It is the company's objective to apply the most advanced
developments in information technology to business requirements.

IISC is privately owned and incorporated in Delaware.

About Hyperscript
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Hyperscript is a powerful language that may be used for manipulating
and analysing data as well as displaying and interacting with graphical
objects.

To find out more about the Hyperscript language use the on-line help
(look at the "Learn command" first).

Wingz for Linux
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The next major release of Wingz (version 2.1) is currently in beta and
IISC has decided to offer the 1.4.1 release for Linux as shareware.
(Please read the file "SHAREWARE" carefully for more information on
shareware.)

Wingz 1.4.1 for Linux is a fully functional release of Wingz 1.x and
as such is fully compatible with all other non-realtime versions of
Wingz 1.x.
