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NAME

Kite - collection of modules useful in Kite design and construction.

DESCRIPTION

The Kite::* modules are a tentative step towards a collection of Perl modules and scripts of general use in kite design and construction.

OBTAINING AND INSTALLING THE Kite::* MODULES

The Kite::* module bundle is available from CPAN as:

/authors/id/ABW/Kite-<version>.tar.gz

e.g.

http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/ABW/Kite-0.01.tar.gz

See http://www.cpan.org/ for a full list of CPAN sites.

Unpack the archive to create an installation directory. Something like this:

zcat Kite-0.01.tar.gz | tar xvf -

'cd' into that directory, make, test and install the modules:

cd Kite-0.01
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

NOTE: on Win32 systems, Microsoft's 'nmake', available from http://www.microsoft.com/ appears to be a suitable replacement for 'make'.

The 'make install' will install the module on your system. You may need administrator privileges to perform this task. If you install the module in a local directory (for example, by executing "perl Makefile.PL LIB=~/lib" in the above - see 'perldoc ExtUtils::MakeMaker' for full details), you will need to ensure that the PERL5LIB environment variable is set to include the location, or add a line to your scripts explicitly naming the library location:

use lib '/local/path/to/lib';

MODULES

The following modules and script comprise the Kite bundle.

Kite

Front-end for the Kite::* modules. Currently just a placeholder for documentation and a bundle version number.

Kite::Base

Base class implementing common functionality such as error reporting.

Kite::Profile

Module defining an object class used to represent and manipulate 2D profiles. See 'perldoc Kite::Profile'.

okprof

Utility script providing a user interface to the Kite::Profile module. Allows 2D profiles to be loaded and manipulated via simple commands. See 'perldoc okprof' or 'okprof -h'.

AUTHOR

Andy Wardley <abw@kfs.org>

VERSION

This is version 0.1 of the Kite bundle.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2000 Andy Wardley. All Rights Reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

Kite::Profile, Kite::Base, okprof