/*
 * general purpose mouse support for Linux
 *
 * Copyright 1993   ajh@gec-mrc.co.uk (Andrew Haylett)
 * Copyright 1994   rubini@ipvvis.unipv.it (Alessandro Rubini)
 *
 *******/

This package, which is almost ready to go 1.0, tries to be a useful
mouse server for applications running on the Linux console.  Its roots
are in the "selection" package, by Andrew Haylett, and the original code
comes from selection itself. This package is intended as
a replacement for "selection", to provide additional facilities.
From 0.18 onward gpm support xterm as well, so you can run gpm-based
applications under X, and you can easily write curses applications which
support the mouse on both the Linux console and xterm. The xterm stuff is
portable (look at sample/README).

Available clients are "the mouseless commander", by Miguel de Icaza
and an emacs library included in this release. A demo dialog binary is
on iride.unipv.it:/pub/gpm, and I won't release it because it is going
to fall in the mainstream dialog.

=========== QUICK INSTALL (no compile)

Binaries are provided as well, and tou can ell your shell

	make quickinst

to install under '/usr/local/{bin,lib,info}' and 

	make quickinst PREFIX=/usr/tools/whatever

to install to default locations.

=========== DOCS

The directory "./doc" holds the documentation. I have switched to
'texinfo', and it seems to work. The release embeds both a postscript
file and an info one. I hope the 'info' file can be useful. No manual
pages are provided, but they will be available before 1.0

=========== KERNEL PATCHES (before 1.1.32)

The directory "kernel" embeds the kernel patches needed to run gpm.
Patches are provided against 1.0 and 1.1.18. Refer to kernel/README
to have more details. No patch is needed for 1.1.32 onwards.

=========== AVAILABILITY 

The latest release is available by ftp from iride.unipv.it:/pub/gpm
Feel free to call me to report/fix bugs.  If you are willing to write
a client I'd like to help as well.

=========== CREDITS

Steven S. Dick (ssd@nevets.oau.org) fixed a pair of bugs in early gpm
	versions.
Miguel de Icaza (miguel@roxanne.nuclecu.unam.mx) helped fixing
	some bugs and provided a good client to test my server.
	He helped a lot in testing the various pre-releases.
Olav Woelfelschneider (wosch@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de)
	fixed 0.10 with MouseSystems compatible mice.
Janne Kukonlehto provided xterm mouse decoding to be stolen by me.