Before installing, make sure you have a java compiler (e.g javac or jikes) and the java 1.1 runtime class library installed. If you want to run this program you need at least a 1.1 compatible java virtual machine. There are some bugs in javac included in the SUN JDK 1.1, it won't work. This package was designed to use the GNU standard for configuration and makefiles. To build and install do the following: 0). Make sure that you have all libraries that are needed in you classpath. You need gnu.getopt, and if you have JDK 1.1 you also need the collection classes and swing for 1.1. 1). Run "aclocal && autoconf && automake --add-missing". 2). Run the "configure" script to configure the package. There are various options you might want to pass to configure to control how the package is built. "configure --help" will give a complete list. If you have jikes, you should specify it with --with-jikes. You can give a path to the directory where it resides, otherwise it is searched in the path. 3). Type "make" to build the package. If you don't have jikes, you should make clean first, since the dependency problem is not yet resolved. 4). Type "make install" to install everything. This doesn't work yet. The created jar file is stored in the share directory. Jochen