This is Parrot, version 0.0.2
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Parrot is Copyright (C) 2001 Yet Another Society. All Rights Reserved.

LICENSE INFORMATION
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This code is distributed under the same license as Perl 5; you can
redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either:

    a) the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
    Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any
    later version, or

    b) the "Artistic License" which can be found in the file "LICENSE"

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See either
the GNU General Public License or the Artistic License for more details.

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| IMPORTANT! IMPORTANT! IMPORTANT!                             |
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| The final license for Parrot has not yet been decided, and   |
| hence you should *NOT* use this code in any other product    |
| or project until a final license is determined. By           |
| submitting code you agree to the above, as well as           |
| agreeing to relicense any submitted code under whatever      |
| final license is chosen.                                     |
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INSTRUCTIONS
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For now, unpack your Parrot tarball, (if you're reading this, you've
probably already done that) type

    perl Configure.pl

to run the Configure script.  This will generate a config.h header, a
Parrot::Config module, and a Makefile.  Next type

    make test_prog

and the test interpreter should build.

You can test the assembler and interpreter by running

    make test

There is some documentation in docs/, but this is a very early alpha
release, so for the most part, you're on your own.

CHANGES
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For documentation on the user-visible changes between this version and
previous versions, please see NEWS. The full changelog is available
as ChangeLog.

MAILING LISTS
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Have fun,
The Parrot team.
