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Welcome to the VRML 2.0 Sourcebook CD-ROM! This CD-ROM contains the full VRML text for all examples from the VRML 2.0 Sourcebook, plus 400 MBytes of software, VRML objects, texture images, and sounds. This wealth of information for VRML world builders is organized into three groups of Web pages.
You can access all of this information from this CD-ROM's VRML 2.0 Sourcebook home page.
This CD-ROM can be read on Macintosh, Windows, and UNIX systems, and contains identical content for each one. Software files are archived or compressed in the conventional manner for each system:
StuffIt, StuffIt Expander, and other Macintosh archive applications are available from your local software store, or from the Web. Aladdin Systems, the makers of StuffIt, provide a downloadable version of StuffIt Expander at http://www.aladdinsys.com.
Where possible, Windows applications on this CD-ROM have already been unarchived, saving you time and hard disk space. For these applications, a Setup.exe setup wizard is already available on the CD-ROM. Run the setup wizard from the CD-ROM to install the application.
Winzip and other Windows archive applications are available from your local software store, or from the Web. Nico Mak Computing, the makers of WinZip, provide a downloadable version of WinZip at http://www.winzip.com.
The online book examples and the VRML object samples from object library vendors are provided in three versions, one each for the Macintosh, Windows, and UNIX. These three versions provide identical content and differ only in their treatment of carriage-return characters within text documents. This is necessary to conform to the different Macintosh, Windows, and UNIX conventions.
Some of the files contained on this CD-ROM use file names that extend beyond the 8.3 file-naming limits of older versions of Windows. In order to access these files from early versions of Windows, you need long-file-name support. Windows 95, Windows NT, and later support long file names and have no trouble accessing all files on this CD-ROM. Similarly, Macintosh and UNIX systems have no trouble accessing the long file names used on portions of this CD-ROM.