			  Spice3f4 for BeOS

October 17, 1998

I have ported spice3 to PowerPC-BeOS R4b3.  If an Intel-BeOS user
wants to help me with a recompile, I would be more than happy to
distribute Intel-BeOS binaries as well.

November 23, 1997

I have done a quick and dirty port of spice3 to BeOS.  I have added a
very simple GUI for displaying plots.  However, the main user
interface is still text based.  If you just want to use spice3 and
don't care about compiling it for yourself, then skip down to the
section called RUNNING.

COMPILING

Very few modification were needed to the source that I downloaded.  In
most cases where I changed files, I renamed the original file by
concatinating .original to the orginal file's name.

To compile spice3 yourself, you will need access to the full version of
CodeWarrior3 for BeOS.  Make sure that the Metrowerks tools and BeIDE
are in your search path.

1) From a term window 'cd' to the spice3f4 directory that was created
   when you unziped the archive.  That is the directory that contains
   this readme file.

2) Compile spice3 using the command 'util/build ppc-beos'.

3) Install the binaries using the command 'util/build install ppc-beos'.
   This will copy the executable files into the spice3f4/bin directory.

RUNNING

To run spice3, make sure that the executables 'spice3' and
'spice_plot' are in your search path.  They are located in the
spice3f4/bin directory.  Also, you will need to export the following
variables:

export SPICE_EXEC_DIR=$INSTALL_PATH/spice3f4/bin
export SPICE_LIB_DIR=$INSTALL_PATH/spice3f4/lib

Be sure to specify the INSTALL_PATH.  To give it a try, just type 
'spice3' from a term window.

Please feel free to modify and improve my GUI code in any way you
like.  You can send feedback to wesley@idsi.net.  If the demand is
great enough I may add additional features such as a plot cursor, a
resizable window, etc.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY.

Wesley Dungan
wesley@idsi.net
