Welcome to XDrawChem! (version 0.99.7)

Written by Bryan Herger, Georgia Institute of Technology,
herger@chemistry.gatech.edu

This program is released under the terms of the modified BSD License.
Portions of the source code are copyright by others.  
Please see the file LICENSE.txt included in this package.

NOTE:  This is an alpha version, it is buggy, and several features 
       are incomplete!!!  Please report bugs to herger@chemistry.gatech.edu

XDrawChem is a two-dimensional molecule drawing program for Unix
operating systems.  It is similar in functionality to other molecule
drawing programs such as ChemDraw (TM, CambridgeSoft).  It can read
and write MDL Molfiles and CML files to allow sharing between
XDrawChem and other chemistry applications.  XDrawChem has been tested
on Linux, Sun Solaris and SGI IRIX.  XDrawChem was designed with Qt
3.0.0, available free from http://www.trolltech.com

Please read INSTALL which gives instructions on how to install
XDrawChem.  The "save" directory contains some example files which
demonstrate some of XDrawChem's features.

*** If you are upgrading from a version before 0.9, read the INSTALL file.
*** Some required files have changed format and need upgrading.

XDrawChem features an online manual.  Run the program and press F1 (or 
select Manual under the Help menu) for instructions.

The HISTORY file lists changes made in each revision.
The TODO file lists bugs and/or features planned for future releases.

The XDrawChem web site is http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~gte067k/xdrawchem 
Please report bugs and suggest features to me at the e-mail listed above.

Please subscribe to the xdrawchem-announce mailing list for
information about future releases.  Send a blank message to
xdrawchem-announce-request@lists.sourceforge.net

Acknowledgements to the following people who have contributed:
Thomas LeClerc
Masao Kawamura
Guy Brand
Sven Bornemann
Kuznik Nikodem
Ralf Ahlbrink
Eduardo Sanchez
Ronald Bialozyt
Egon Willighagen 
