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: > ... > 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 ------------------------------- 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 - ------------------------------- ======================================================================== Univ. Stuttgart IPVR, Breitwiesenstr. 20-22, D-70565 Stuttgart, Germany ========================================================================