Wed Mar  4 22:37:50 PST 1992

This is a pre-release of the LBL audio tool `vat'.  Included are a
Sun-4 binary suitable for use on any version of sparcstation
(-I, -II, SLC, ELC, IPC, IPX) and a manual entry.  The source
will be released "soon" but we have a few loose ends to finish first. 

Vat is primarily intended as an audio conferencing tool.  To make use of
the conferencing capabilities, you really want to run vat on a
workstation that supports IP multicast.  Steve Deering of Xerox PARC has
done complete IP multicast support for Sun OS 4.x which can be ftp'd
from host gregorio.stanford.edu, file vmtp-ip/ipmulti-sunos41x.tar.Z. 

Since this is a beta being released for testing by Internet packet audio
researchers, we BADLY want to hear about bugs and problems.  In other
words, if you ftp & use vat assume you owe us at least one bug report. 
Please send all vat related correspondence to vat@ee.lbl.gov.  Thanks.

 - Van Jacobson  (van@ee.lbl.gov)
   Steve McCanne (mccanne@ee.lbl.gov)
