$Id: README.BIN,v 1.3 1998/05/29 16:27:23 bremner Exp $

				May 29, 1998

This is the "binary" distribution of polytope generators corresponding
to the polytope catalog at http://www.math.washington.edu/~bremner.

These are not really binaries, just perl scripts generated from
the same source as the web pages.

To use the system, you need perl version 5. Install the directory
perllib somewhere.  Edit instance.pl to point to this place.
Put instance.pl somewhere in your path, and probably change the name
to, say instance.

This is my first try at releasing this stuff, so you can expect 
problems. In fact, even if it works perfectly, it doesn't do anything
very useful yet.  

The polytopes are generated in polymake format currently.  Well, I
think it is polymake format. One of the many things I plan to do is
add other output options.

The other thing I think I want to do is make the system use polymake 
somehow to do some of the generation. I'm still thinking about how to 
do this.

If you would like to complain, or suggest additions to the embryonic 
catalog, you can send email to me at:
	
	bremner@unb.ca

P.S. Yeah, I know. The generator for Q4 doesn't work.