XTIDE QUICK INSTALL INSTRUCTIONS


1.  XTide is Copyright (C) 1998 by David Flater, comes with absolutely no
warranty, and is provided under the GNU General Public License.  See the
verbose documentation for all of the relevant disclaimers.


2.  XTide requires:

   libXpm version 4.3 or later (a.k.a. xpm-3.4, go figure)
   libpng version 0.96 or later
   libz version 1.0.4 or later (a.k.a. zlib-1.0.4)


3.  You must download at least one harmonics file from
http://www.flaterco.com/xtide/files.html.


4.  You must set the environment variable HFILE_PATH to point to the
harmonics files that you downloaded.  Example:

  export HFILE_PATH=/usr/local/share/xtide/harmonics:\
  /usr/local/share/xtide/harmonics.anchorage:\
  /usr/local/share/xtide/offsets.xml


5.  ./configure; make


6.  You should now have three binaries:

    xtide   The interactive X-windows client
    tide    The non-interactive TTY client
    xttpd   The web server


7.  The X-windows client is easy to use.  Go for it.


8.  tide does a few things that xtide doesn't do.  Run it with nothing on
the command line and read the usage info.


9.  xttpd is a self-contained web server.  Fire it up and browse away.
If you don't have root or if you already have a web server running,
provide a port number (e.g., 8080) on the command line when you start
it, and find it at http://your.site.net:8080/ instead of
http://your.site.net/.  Set the environment variable XTTPD_FEEDBACK to
change the feedback address.  (You can also change the compiled-in
default in config.hh.)


DWF
1999-10-24
