This is a README file for the Computer Applications Platform, 
which is meant to be a self-sustaining computing environment 
for commodity computers. The CAP system is intended to provide 
features corresponding to compilers, operating systems, and 
applications. 

         This is revision 0 of the software, 
          THE SYSTEM IS NOT YET FUNCTIONAL. 

See cap.pdf for an exploration of the systems goals, status, 
techniques, and implementation.

To bootstrap the system (as far as it is currently implemented) 
in a Unix environment with bash, sed, awk, python, place the files 
cap.i, xtf.sh, and xta.sh in a directory, make the 
shell scripts executable, and then execute xta.sh

After bootstrapping the system, if you have latex installed on your
host system you can execute the i2l.sh script to produce the cap.pdf file.

The system is released under the MIT free software license:

Copyright (c) 2009-2014 Charles Perkins

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation
files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without
restriction, including without limitation the rights to use,
copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following
conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
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