Welcome to Xi
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Overview:
 Xi is an interactive C-like programming-language with intuitivly usable vector
 extensions. Therefore Xi is tailormade for quick analysis and manipulation of
 data from numerical simulations or scientific experiments. It is capable of
 wide ranged numerical manipulations and visualisation technics producing pixel
 or vectororiented output (including output for the raytracer Povray). Xi also
 supports the message passing system PVM to accelerate complex visualisations
 by using a workstation cluster as a parallel computer.


How can I get Xi?
 You can get the newest version of Xi via ftp://zaphod.uni-muenster.de/pub/xi
 or http://zaphod.uni-muenster.de/xi/download.html. Also online documentation
 is available in the Web with http://zaphod.uni-muenster.de/xi.
 Xi is freeware. But we asked you to read the copyright note coming up
 with xi in the file 'copyright'.


Installation:
 Extract the files from the archive
 
 >gunzip -c xi-0.6.2.tar.gz | tar -xvf

 Install Xi with the shellscript 'install_xi'. The first parameter of
 this command is the location where you want to install the xi-files. The
 second parameter determines the directory of the shellscript
 which starts Xi. (This shellscript supports multi-platform installations.)
 May be a good chooise is
 
 >install_xi /usr/local/xi /usr/local/bin

 That's it. Start Xi with 
 
 >/usr/local/bin/xi

 The documentation is located in /usr/local/xi/docu. To read it
 you need a html-browser (netscape recommended). Start point is index.html

 >netscape /usr/local/docu/index.html


And the source code?
 The source code is available on demand. Mail to xi@zaphod.uni-muenster.de.
 At this moment we have no good configure file so porting Xi on an other
 architecture might be difficult.

Any comments or bugs?
 Please mail us: xi@zaphod.uni-muenster.de


Have fun with Xi!

 Bodo Junglas    (junglas@uni-muenster.de)
 Klaus Spanderen (spander@uni-muenster.de)
 Fabian Weis     (weisf@uni-muenster.de)





