Welcome to the V FTP site. This site contains the main
distribution for the V, a free, portable C++ GUI Framework.
This file was last updated Feb. 29, 1996.

NOTE: The first public release of V was announced February 14, 1996.
While I've tried to get things right, already I've learned of a
few problems -- mostly compiler related. I'm doing this all by myself
(I'm an adjunct professor - no grad students to help me!), so
please be patient! I appreciate feedback, and will try to fix
things (or at least update THIS file) as often as I can. Your
understanding is appreciated! Remember, I'm doing this for free.

The good news is that a bunch of people have downloaded V, and
have gotten it running! If you find V useful, especially if
you develop an app, I'd love to know! Thanks.

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The files of interest:

v-1.05.tar.gz   -- Gzipped tar file of full Windows and X version
              of V. This includes all source for X and Windows,
              and full documentation (including PostScript version
              of reference manual).

vx-1.05.tar.gz   -- Gzipped tar file of the X version.
              This includes all source for X, and documentation
              for all versions (including PostScript).

vx-1.05.tar -- nonzipped version of above.


vwin105.zip -- DOS ZIP format archive of Windows version. Includes
            executable images of sample program.

vwin105.tgz -- Gzipped and tarred Windows version.

vdemo-1.05.tgz -- Linux and Windows Binary of VDraw demo program
		(gzipped tar)

vrefman.dvi.gz -- Gzipped DVI version of V Reference Manual.
               This is my solution for Windows users who can't
               print PostScript. (ZIP should be able to unpack
               gzip files, too.)
               Various DVI viewers are available, including
               xdvi for X, and dviwin29.zip for Windows.
               dviwin29.zip is available by ftp from a bunch
               of places, including ftp.cdrom.com.

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See http://www.cs.unm.edu/~wampler for a link to more information
about V, including the full HTML version of the user manual.

******************* LATEST NEWS ABOUT V ***********************
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February 28, 1996

Release V Version 1.05. Added some information files. This version
prepared for upload to sunsite.

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February 27, 1996

Release of V Version 1.04. The naming convention on the
distribution files changed to make it easier to tell versions
apart.

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February 22, 1996

Updated to X version 1.03. Cleans up some g++ incompatibilities.
Added Linux binary VDraw demo program to ftp directory.

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February 21, 1996

The Windows version has been updated to use static libraries.
The printer support is also now working.

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February 17, 1996

The v.tar and v.tar.gz files are updated to fix the compile
bugs in vfilesel.cxx and vstatusp.cxx. However, g++ 2.7.0 still
seems to generate a few warnings (in vpsdc.cxx) that can be
ignored. Support for an OS/2 version has been overwhelming,
and the OS/2 port has been moved to high priority -- but it
will still be summer at best.

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February 16, 1996

For the X version, the file "vfilesel.cxx" will not make with
g++ 2.7.0 or later due to a change in C++ semantics. To fix,
move the declaration of ix on line 339 to outside the for loop.
This is also true for "vstatusp.cxx",  line 47  (int limit).
Sorry about that. These changes have NOT been made yet to
the tar distribution files.

Also, the vdraw.exe example for the Windows distribution needs
the Borland runtime .dll. I'll also try to fix that asap.

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February 14, 1996

Version 1.02 -

The X Windows version seems to be stable at this point.

I expect to update the Windows 3.1 version in a few
days. It currently does not have full printer support.

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February 6, 1996

Version 1.01 -
New versions of v.tar.gz and v.tar were installed this date.
The versions for windows will be updated soon.

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January 10, 1996

Version 1.0 posted.
