OpenGL Perl Module V0.4
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the files
COPYRIGHT HELP TUTORIAL WHY README INSTALL
are derived from:
	http://www.arc.ab.ca/vr/opengl

OpenGL Module Overview
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OpenGL is a standard API for doing computer graphics. This module allows a
perl program to use OpenGL by letting it make OpenGL function calls.

What's Here
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This module basically has all of the opengl library and some of the X, glu
and glx libraries. In addition, some extra routines are provided for
convienience. For example, "glpOpenWindow", does all that X/glX setup stuff
for you.

The perl module preserves the interface (names and arguments) to all the
opengl functions. Therefore, you can continue to use existing man pages,
books, and other documentation.

And we got a PLUGIN for netscape now too!!
check out the plugins subdirectory.

System Requirements
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Obviously you need a machine with Perl 5. If you dont have perl5, and you
have an SGI then get it here. You also must have either:

   * OpenGL and X (with the glx extention)
   * MesaGL library, which is compatable software implementation of OpenGL.

This module has only been tested on a SGI workstation running IRIX 5.3 and
using PERL version 5.001 Unofficial patchlevel 1m. I'm told that it works
great on AIX 3.2.5 too, and with Mesa on SunOS.

More Info
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  * installation instructions can be found in the file: INSTALL 
  * the file HELP contains useful troubleshooting info
  * The TUTORIAL goes into detail about programming with the OpenGL module.


If you have any further questions, comments, or flames, then please send me
email:
	stan@arc.ab.ca

