A generic transformation channel
		(Version 1.1p1 / January 15, 2000)

		Andreas Kupries	(a.kupries@westend.com)

This directory contains a freely distributable extension to Tcl
implementing a generic transformation channel, to be configured
with tcl scripts implementing the real behaviour.


BACKGROUND

Tcl stands for the Tool Command Language, a freely distributable,
embeddable scripting language package.  Tk is an freely distributable X
windows interface toolkit and widget library implemented as a collection of
new commands added to Tcl.

GIOT is developed for Tcl 8.2 and beyond.  It is a Tcl extension,
Tk is not required.

This distribution contains the source code for GIOT and documentation
on how to write other transformation channel types in C.


COMPILING/USING Giot

To compile Giot follow the instructions on the compilation page of the
HTML documentation.

To report bugs, bug fixes, descriptions of interesting Giot
applications, and suggested improvements:

+) Send email to a.kupries@westend.com

or

+) Post an article to the newsgroup	comp.lang.tcl


REMARKS

This extension was developed on my private computer, a PC running
Linux 2.0.29 (gcc 2.7.2.3). If you have problems compiling on a
particular architecture please send me your solutions so that I am
able to integrate them into the base.