
                            Visual Thought 1.4
                               24 July 1998

            The Cross-Platform Diagramming & Flowcharting Tool

        Copyright (c) 1994-98 Confluent, Inc.  All rights reserved.

                              Confluent, Inc.
                          400 Spear St., Suite 207
                          San Francisco, CA 94105
                   415-764-1000 Voice . 415-764-1008 Fax
               info@confluent.com . http://www.confluent.com

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                     Developers: William Tseng
                                 James A. Greenfield
                                 Will Sargent

                  Documentation: Bill Holtsnider

                 Graphic Design: Mark Ryan

                     Production: Catherine Lush

                        Testing: Scott Benson
                                 Justin Fields
                                 Bill Holtsnider
                                 Mindy Lauck
                                 Jason Nordwick
                                 Lane Paxton
                                 James Schoettler

                 Special Thanks: Alan Chung
                                 Jonathan J. Wilcox
                                 Thomas A. Gallagher
                                 Paul W. Hammond
                                 Kelvin Quan
                                 David Omori
                                 Mark Dalrymple

              Kudos and thanks to Lighthouse Design, Ltd.,
             for creating Diagram!, an amazing drawing tool
                   for NeXTStep and OpenStep systems.

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This directory contains these subdirectories:

-  license

   Contains license key files for your installation and a customer
   file with your customer ID.

-  doc

   Contains documentation concerning Visual Thought, including copyright
   information, upgrade notes, release notes describing changes for
   current and prior releases, usage notes, frequently-asked questions,
   and technical notes.

   The file licensing.txt contains information regarding licensing
   Visual Thought.

On UNIX, these subdirectories are also present:

-  admin

   Contains scripts for installing and uninstalling Visual Thought.

-  util-1.4

   Contains non-Visual Thought files, including license management
   software and other utilities.

-  vt-1.4

   Contains Visual Thought 1.4 files.

On Windows, these subdirectories are also present:

-  bin

   Contains Perl scripts and executables for Visual Thought and
   utility programs.

-  lib

   Contains Visual Thought library files.

-  config

   Contains the preferences configuration, file translator
   definitions, and file typing dictionary.

-  examples

   Contains Visual Thought example documents.

-  palettes

   Contains Visual Thought palette documents.

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The following independent software packages are incorporated in Visual
Thought:

  Galaxy Run Time Components
  Copyright (C) 1992-1996 Visix Software, Inc.
  All rights reserved.

  Elan License Manager
  Copyright (C) 1989-1996 Elan Computer Group, Inc.
  All rights reserved.

  Graphics Interchange Format
  Copyright property of CompuServe Incorporated.  
  GIF(sm) is a Service Mark property of CompuServe Incorporated.

The following independent software packages are included in the Visual
Thought distribution:

  xgrabsc
  Copyright (C) 1990-93 Bruce Schuchardt, Servio Corp.

  ImageMagick convert
  Copyright (C) 1995 E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company

    The following software libraries are incorporated in convert:

      JPEG library (Independent JPEG Group)
      Copyright (C) 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, Thomas G. Lane.
      All Rights Reserved except as specified in doc/copyrights.txt.

      TIFF library
      Copyright (C) 1988-1995 Sam Leffler
      Copyright (C) 1991-1995 Silicon Graphics, Inc.

      XPM library
      Copyright (C) 1989-95 GROUPE BULL

  perl
  Copyright (C) 1989,1990,1991, Larry Wall
