
	     RubyDCL -- a ruby interface to the DCL library

	 by T. Horinouchi, K. Goto, and K. Kuroi

Last Updated: May 13, 2003 by T Horinouchi

* WHAT IS THIS?

  This is a one-to-one wrapper to a scientific graphic library DCL
  (http://www.gfd-dennou.org/arch/dcl/).

* DOCUMENTATION

  Documentation of this library is distributed sepately, since it is
  very big. You can download it from the following addresses.

    Jappanese Documentation:
      http://ruby.gfd-dennou.org/products/ruby-dcl/ruby-dcl-doc.tar.gz
    English Documentation:
      http://ruby.gfd-dennou.org/products/ruby-dcl/ruby-dcl-Edoc.tar.gz

  The documentation is available on the web:

      http://ruby.gfd-dennou.org/products/ruby-dcl/

* INSTALLATION (dependent software)

  To install this library, the following must have been installed. 

   - The C version of the DCL
     http://www.gfd-dennou.org/arch/dcl/dcl-5.2-C.3.tar.gz

     Download and install it as follows:

     % tar xvzf dcl-5.2-C.3.tar.gz
     % cd dcl-5.2-C
     % ./configure
     % make
     % amke install

   - Ruby version 1.6 or later (http://www.ruby-lang.org/)
     Required version: ver 0.5.5 or later.

   - NArray  --- a multi-dimensional numeric array class for ruby
     
     (http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/raa-list.rhtml?name=NArray)

* INSTALLATION (this library)

  % tar xvzf ruby-dcl-....tar.gz
  % cd ruby-dcl-...

  Here replace ruby-dcl-... with the actual one such as ruby-dcl-1.1.3

  % ruby extconf.rb
  % ruby site-install

