 * Name: README
 * Description: README file, and brief introduction
 * Version: README,v 1.201 1998/08/15 00:28:18 rleyton Exp
 *
 *   LEAP - An extensible and free RDBMS
 *   Copyright (C) 1997, 1998 Richard Leyton
 *
 *   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 *   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 *   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
 *   (at your option) any later version.
 *
 *   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 *   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 *   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 *   GNU General Public License for more details.
 *
 *   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 *   along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
 *   Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
 *
 *   See the file COPYING for more information.
 *
 *   Richard Leyton, c/o 3.Pelting Drove, Priddy, WELLS, 
 *   Somerset, BA5 3BA. E-Mail: rleyton@acm.org
 *   and/or http://www.dogbert.demon.co.uk/leap.html

Thankyou for downloading LEAP! Hopefully you'll find it relatively straight-
forward and easy to compile, run and use LEAP. This file should serve
as a good starting point for new comers, and point you in the right
direction.

See file `COPYING' for copying conditions.
See file `INSTALL' for generic compilation and installation instructions.
See below for LEAP compilation options.
See also src/README for a quick intro to compiling, and overcoming problems.
See file `NEWS' for list of major changes to the current release.
See file `INTRO` for a brief introduction to LEAP.
See directory `DOC' for various documents and usage instructions.
See file 'scripts/users/README' for setting up a small footprint installation.

Check that you have the latest version. Check the above web sites, or send
e-mail to rleyton@acm.org. I endevour to release a new version every month
or two.

Join the LEAP mailing list to receive announcements and information regarding
LEAP, and exchange ideas and comments. Send a one line e-mail to 
majordomo@brookes.ac.uk containing the line "subscribe leap" in the body
of the message. To send messages to all the other people subscribed to
the list, send e-mail to leap@brookes.ac.uk

Send bug reports to rleyton@acm.org an adequate description of the problem: 
your input, what you expected, what you got, and why this is wrong.  Diffs 
are welcome, but they only describe a solution, from which the problem might 
be uneasy to infer.

LEAP Compilation options
------------------------
LEAP supports the readline libraries if they are installed. The readline
libraries allow command line history and command editing. Versions 2.0 and
2.1 are known to work. 

For more information see Q2.0 in the LEAP FAQ.

Debug output can also be disabled, see Q2.1 in the FAQ for details, but
briefly run configure with '--disable-debug' and recompile.
