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+/*  $Header: /cvs/mate/gcalctool/README,v 1.6 2006/01/09 16:30:20 richb Exp $
+ *
+ *  Copyright (c) 1987-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
+ *  All Rights Reserved.
+ */
+
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+CONTENTS:
+
+1. Introduction.
+2. Getting Started.
+3. Calctool history.
+4. Acknowledgements.
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+1. Introduction.
+----------------
+
+This is v5.32.0 of gcalctool, the calculator application that was previously
+in the OpenWindows Deskset of the Solaris 8 operating system. 
+Sun Microsystems Inc. have kindly given me permission to release it.
+
+It incorporates a multiple precision arithmetic packages based on the work
+of Professor Richard Brent, who has also kindly given me permission to make
+it available.
+
+There is a single graphics driver for Gtk2 included with this release.
+
+
+2. Getting started.
+-------------------
+
+See the file 'INSTALL'
+
+The manual pages also describe how to use gcalctool in detail.
+
+There is a TODO file included which lists current bugs, and the
+enhancements that will hopefully be added in the future.
+
+
+3. Calctool history.
+--------------------
+
+Calctool was a project I worked on before I joined the OpenWindows DeskSet
+engineering group at Sun. It was originally released to comp.sources.unix 
+in the late 1980's, and worked with many different graphics packages 
+including SunView, X11, Xview, NeWS and MGR. There was also a version 
+that worked on dumb tty terminals.
+
+It used a double-precision maths library that was a combination of the work
+of Fred Fish and various routines that were in the BSD 4.3 maths library.
+
+A lot of people in the community provided feedback in the form of comments,
+bug reports and fixes. In 1990, I started working in the DeskSet engineering
+group. I was working for Sun Microsystems in Australia at the time, (having
+moved there from England in 1983). 
+
+I searched around looking for multiple precision maths libraries and found
+a package called MP written in FORTRAN by Richard Brent. I converted it to C,
+adjusted the glue between the resultant code and the calctool code, and this 
+went on to be the basis of the calculator that was in the OpenWindows DeskSet.
+I also added scientific, financial and logical modes. This calctool was also 
+the basis of the dtcalc application that is a part of CDE (albeit I had 
+nothing to do with that).
+
+With its inclusion in the MATE CVS repository, it was renamed to gcalctool.
+
+More recently, Sami Pietila provided arithmetic precedence support and 
+Robert Ancell converted the UI to use Glade.
+
+
+4. Acknowledgements.
+--------------------
+
+See the AUTHORS file.
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Suggestions for further improvement would be most welcome, plus bug reports
+and comments.
+
+The Gcalctool Team.