To play rocks... On a MS Windows machine: 1. Download and install python 2.2.2 from http://python.org/ 2. Double click the `rocks.py' or `rocks.old.py' programs. On a Linux/i386 machine: You can simply execute `rocks', it's already compiled for your machine. On a UNIX or Mac OS X machine: 1. To build the C++ version, you will need the X11 development libraries. 2. Remove the existing `rocks' executable. 3. Type `make'. 4. Now you can run `rocks'. 5. To run one of the python versions of rocks, you need python 2.2.2, and Tkinter (the Python Tk interface). 6. Then you should be able to simply execute `rocks.py' or `rocks.old.py'. If you want to use `brace' to build the C++ version from `brace.b', you'll need to compile brace. The source code `brace.b' and the C version `brace.c' for bootstrapping are included in this package. Have fun! Please contact me if you like rocks or want to report a bug or give me a patch or just for a chat. Thanks! Sam Watkins sam@shallow.net 5/2/2004