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Copyright (C) 1994
German National Research Center for Computer Science (GMD)
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This is the READ.ME file for the Cellular Automaton Tool (CAT).
Cellular Automaton Tool (CAT)
Release 1.00
7 November 1994
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Table of Contents
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1. What is CAT?
2. Installation
3. Documented problems which aren't fixed yet
4. Legal notes
5. Authors
6. Bug reports and comments
7. File manifest for CAT_EXE.ZIP and CAT_DOC.ZIP
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What is CAT?
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The Cellular Automaton Tool (CAT) is a tool to build and visualize
cellular automatons in an easy-to-use way. Its pascal-like language
CARP (Cellular Automaton Programming Language) is a means to build
cellular automatons of your own or to transfer samples from the
literature.
As most intuitive approaches to a cellular automaton, CAT uses
its so-called "STATE" window to show the state of each cell of a
cellular automaton by a certain color. In most cases, changes of
the model may easily be noticed by recognizing uprising patterns or
changing colors. Apart from a representation in colors, the state of
all cells can also be expressed in decimal or hexadecimal figures.
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Installation:
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We suggest that you create the following directories:
C:\CAT
C:\CAT\DOC
Unzip the zipped archive CAT_EXE.ZIP into the C:\CAT directory and
the archive CAT_DOC.ZIP into the C:\CAT\DOC directory. The unzipped
doc-files are appropriate to be printed by Winword 2.0 in A4 format.
If you have other paper formats, you must reformat the doc-files.
The doc-files are splitted up to avoid memory problems.
A complete CAT manual is formed by the doc-files CM_PART0.DOC to
CM_PART5.DOC.
A listing of the files in the archive is below; they include the
executables, some CAT program files and Borlands BWCC.DLL
(copyright Borland).
After that, you can start CAT
- by doubleclicking the CAT.EXE within the file manager
environment or
- by using the windows setup tool to add the CAT program
to any program group. Click then the dice-form CAT icon.
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Documented problems which aren't fixed yet:
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Known restrictions and errors are mentioned in appendix D of the CAT
manual. Further hints are given in the online help.
If you experience problems with GDI.EXE, try to disable shadow ram
and cache in your PC's bios setup.
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Legal notes
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Copyright (C) 1994
German National Research Center for Computer Science (GMD)
Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its
documentation for any purpose is granted to non-commercial
organisations and for personal use, provided that the above copyright
notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and
this permission notice and warranty disclaimer appear in supporting
documentation, and that the name of GMD not be used in advertising or
publicity pertaining to distribution of the software without specific,
written prior permission.
For any use for profit or other commercial gain please contact the
GMD (email adress below).
GMD disclaims all warranties with regard to this software, including
all implied warranties of merchantability and fitness. In no event
shall GMD be liable for any special, indirect, or consequential
damages or any damages whatsoever resulting from loss of use, data or
profits, whether in an action of contract, negligence or other
tortious action, arising out of or in connection with the use or
performance of this software.
GMD
Postbox 13 16
D-53754 Sankt Augustin
email: parmoc@gmd.de
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Authors:
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This software was written by Igor Jaceniak, Stefan Focke,
Uwe Link and Georg Juenger, GMD.
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Bug reports and comments:
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Send mail and comments to parmoc@gmd.de
Have fun with it.
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FILE MANIFEST FOR THIS DISTRIBUTION
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CAT_EXE.ZIP expands to:
CAT.EXE The CAT executable
CAT.HLP CAT Windows Help application
BWCC.DLL library (copyright 1989, 1990, 1991 Borland Intl)
(may be exchanged by your national BWCC.DLL)
README.1ST You're looking at it...
LICENSE.DOC Legal notes to be noticed
various CAT, CAR sample programs
CAS files
CAT_DOC.ZIP expands to:
CM_PART0.DOC to CM_PART5.DOC a complete CAT Manual including a reference guide for the language the CAT models are programmed in.
The files may be printed by use of e.g.
Winword 2.0. If you want to use another format
than A4, you must reformat the documents.
LICENSE.DOC Legal notes to be noticed
END of READ.ME file for the Cellular Automaton Tool (CAT).