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Welcome to XDrawChem! (version 0.84)

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

This program is released under the terms of the GNU General Public
License.  Please see LICENSE 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 to allow sharing between XDrawChem and other
chemistry applications.  XDrawChem has been tested on Linux and 
SGI IRIX 6.5.  XDrawChem was designed with Qt 2.2, available free 
from http://www.troll.no

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.

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

The BUGS file lists known bugs (or features which may be perceived as bugs!).  
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.