bita -- BInary Typed Arrays (for Tcl/Tk)
	(C) 1995, 1996 kir@iitb.fhg.de (Harald Kirsch)

What is bita? --- An excerpt from the manual page:
       The  Tcl/Tk-extension  Bita implements binary typed arrays
       with dynamic length. Access to and handling  of  Bitas  is
       quite  similar  to  the handling of widgets in Tk. The new
       Tcl-commands Short, UShort, Int, Unsigned, Float and  Dou-
       ble create for each of their name-arguments a binary array
       with the obvious type and bind it to name.  [...]

       Bitas are designed to  efficiently  store  and  manipulate
       large numbers of binary values of a given type. Initially,
       a Bita contains no values and has length zero.  As  values
       are added or deleted, the length varies accordingly.

Currently, every bita understands the following sub-commands:
  copy, get, insert, length, pop, push, read, remove, set, trunc, type
  and write  


What is contained in this package?
  With the source code in this package, the following files can be
  generated and installed.
  o tclbsh: The tclsh linked with the bita-extension.
  o bwish: The wish linked with the bita-extension.
  o libbita.a: A library to enable you to extend your favorite tclsh
    with bitas  
  o bita.n: manual page for the commands added to tcl by the
    bita-extension 
  o bita.3: manual page describing how to add bitas to your favorite
    tclsh. 
  o t2a: A tclbsh-script which uses bita-features to convert our
    favorite binary data format to ascii.

What else do you need?
  o TCL-7.4 and TK-4.0


HOW TO INSTALL:
I recently started to use autoconf, so the typical procedure is:

1a) Run configure:
   ./configure

1b) touch .depend

2) Check the top of Makefile to see, if configure was good enough in
   guessing parameters. Edit, if necessary.
   *** In particular check prefix, because I use it a bit differently
   *** than usual.

3) Create dependencies:
   make depend

4) Compile the software:
   make

5) Install the software. (Tell me what you think about the
   LROOT-feature in Makefile.)
   make install

There is a rather incomplete set of tests in the test-subdirectory
which can be ran by 'make test'.


Until now I was only able to test the software on Solaris 2.4 and
Linux, which means that the configure script might err on other
machines.


Comments and bug reports to 
  kir@iitb.fhg.de

P.S.: Please include the VERSION of bita in bug reports. It can be
found with
  grep VERSION.= Makefile.in