This directory contains an ALPHA-TEST version of the University of Melbourne
Mercury compiler.

The Mercury implementation is free software, but it is Copyright (C)
1994, 1995 University of Melbourne.  It is distributed under the terms
of the GNU General Public License.  See the file COPYING for copying
permission.  The Mercury library and runtime (the files in the library
and runtime subdirectories) are distributed under the terms of the GNU
Library General Public License.  See the file COPYING.LIB for copying
permissions for those files.  The subdirectory `boehm_gc' contains a
conservative garbage collector distributed by Hans Boehm - see the file
README in that directory for copyright information about those files.
A few files (config*, runtime/timing.c) are derived from
code that is copyright by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
The program `html2texi' in the doc directory is copyright by CERN; see
the copyright notice at the end of that file.

THIS MATERIAL IS PROVIDED AS IS, WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED.  ANY USE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK.

See the file INSTALL for installation instructions.

The documentation sources are in the `doc' subdirectory.  The installation
process will install INFO, HTML, and DVI versions in the locations specified
in the file Mmake.common - by default these locations are /usr/local/info,
/usr/local/lib/mercury/html, and /usr/local/lib/mercury/doc respectively.

For more information about Mercury, see the Mercury WWW home page at
http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~zs/mercury.html, or send mail to mercury@cs.mu.oz.au.

Please send bug reports, enhancement requests, suggestions for improvements,
and any other feedback to mercury-bugs@cs.mu.oz.au or mercury@cs.mu.oz.au.
If you find something you don't like, please tell us;
if you find something you do like, please tell the world ;-).

The Mercury distribution is available via anonymous ftp from
ftp.cs.mu.oz.au in the directory pub/mercury, or via WWW
from http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~fjh/mercury.