INTRODUCTION
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RuBoids is a Boids simulation written in Ruby and using OpenGL and Qt. For
information on Boids, see http://www.red3d.com/cwr/boids/.

Ruby is an object-oriented scripting language by Yukihiro Matsumoto. The
official Ruby Web site (http://www.ruby-lang.org/) contains information and
pointers to resources for this wonderful language.

RuBoids is developed and maintained by Jim Menard (<jimm@io.com>). The
latest version of RuBoids can be found on the Ruby Application Archive or
on the official RuBoids Web page
(http://www.io.com/~jimm/downloads/ruboids/).

RUNNING
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	cd ruboids
	ruboids.rb

RuBoids looks for an optional properties file. If none is specified on the
command line, it looks for a file named 'boids.properties' in the current
directory. For example, to load the example properties file in this
directory:

	cd ruboids
	ruboids.rb ../boids.properties

DEPENDENCIES
============

RuBoids requires the OpenGL and Qt packages, which can be found on the Ruby
Application Archive.

COPYING
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RuBoids is copyrighted free software by Jim Menard and is released under the
same license as Ruby. See the Ruby license
(http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/LICENSE.txt).

RuBoids may be freely copied in its entirety providing this notice, all
source code, all documentation, and all other files are included.

RuBoids is copyright (c) 2001 by Jim Menard.

WARRANTY
========

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED
WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.