INTRODUCTION

LCDproc is a small program that extracts various statistics about your
machine and displays them on an LCD display.  It currently only
supports 20x4 and 20x2 character displays, made by Matrix Orbital Corporation
(a bunch of really cool people).  Hit their web site at
http://www.matrix-orbital.com/ for pricing and ordering
information. We'll be supporting more displays in future versions.

Our site is located at http://lcdproc.omnipotent.net/ ... so check
there first for new versions or updates.  We've got a spot on the web
site for user's suggestions, and you can e-mail us as well:

choadster@earthlink.net (William W. Ferrell)
scriven@cs.colostate.edu (Scott Scriven)

INSTALLATION

Refer to the INSTALL file included with this archive for installation
instructions (including how to connect the LCD to your system).

Also, be sure to EDIT THE MAKEFILE before compiling.  It contains many
configuration options.  (these will be removed as soon as LCDproc uses
a real config file)

CHANGES

The Memory Screen now reflects "free" memory a bit differently.
Memory used for buffers and cache is considered "free" now, so your
actual available memory should be reflected more accurately now.

Several modescreen letters have changed recently.  Please look in the
man page for the new list.

HELPING OUT

If you get the urge to help out by writing code, feel free to "make todo"
and find out what needs to be done...  (also, of course, new ideas are
good too :) 

To add new drivers, read drv_base.h for instructions.

SPECIAL THANKS

We'd like to thank the following people for helping out with this:
   Everyone at Matrix Orbital Corporation -- you guys are great!
   Gareth Watts -- Patches, mailing list, ideas, etc.  Thanks!
   Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org> -- libc6 compile bugfix
   digi <digi@inreach.net> -- made LCDproc say "1 day", not "1 days"

LEGAL STUFF

LCDproc is Copyright (C) 1998 William Ferrell and Scott Scriven
The included file, "COPYING", contains the full GNU license.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

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 the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA.

