NOTICE

The AERO software package is licensed free of charge. Therefore, we 
provide absolutely no warranty of any kind in any case. The Universitaet 
Stuttgart and the authors provide the AERO software package "as is" 
without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, including, but not 
limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a 
particular purpose. The entire risk as to the quality and the performance of 
the program is with you. Should the AERO software package prove defective,
you assume the cost of all necessary servicing, repair or correction.

In no event may the Universitaet Stuttgart or any of the programs' authors be 
liable to you for damages, including any lost profits, lost monies, or other 
special, incidental or consequential damages arising out of the use or inability
to use (including but not limited to loss of data or data being rendered 
inaccurate or losses sustained by third parties or a failure of the program to 
operate with programs not included in the AERO software package) the 
program, even if you have been advised of the possibility of such damages, or 
for any claim by any other party.


COPYRIGHT AND PUBLIC DOMAIN LICENCE

The AERO software package is being distributed by the Universitaet 
Stuttgart as public domain software. Copyright (c) is with the authors, Hartmut
Keller, Horst Stolz, Andreas Ziegler and Thomas Braunl at the Univ. Stuttgart,
IPVR, Germany. 
There is no warranty in any case as stated in the paragraph above.

You are free to use and copy the original AERO software package free of 
charge for non-commercial applications, provided that 
the notices on copyright, public domain, and no warranty of this page
as well as a reference to the Computer Science report on AERO
by the authors are included,

You may obtain the AERO software package for any of the following computer
systems:
    *  SUN 4 / Sparcstation
    *  Silicon Graphics
    *  DEC station
    *  IBM PC (linux) or compatibles 


DOCUMENTATION

Keller, Stolz, Ziegler, Braunl: Adventures in Virtual Mechanics  -  Simulation
and Animation of Rigid-Body-Systems, Computer Science Report, no. 8/93,
Univ. Stuttgart, Germany, July 1993


HOW TO COPY FILES VIA "ANONYMOUS FTP"

enter: ftp ftp.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de

> Connected to inf.
> 220 inf FTP server (Version 6.36 SVR4 Thu Mar 18 10:49:05 MET 1993) ready.
> Name (ftp:...:):
enter: ftp

> 331 Guest login ok, send e-mail address as password.
> Password:
enter: <your email address>

> ...
> ftp>
enter: cd pub/AERO

> 250 CWD command successful.
> ftp>
enter: get README
(for ASCII text files)

> ...
enter: bin
enter: get aero.solaris.tar.gz
(for binary files)

> ...
enter: bye
(to exit)
> 221 Goodbye

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After copying binary files you have to "un-zip" and "de-tar" them.
These filenames look like:  xyz.tar.gz
Type:  gzcat xyz.tar.gz | tar xvf -

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