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+ Amaya Release
+
+
+About this Release
+==================
+
+Amaya is intended to be a comprehensive environment for testing and
+evaluating new proposals for Web standards and formats. The first version of
+this testbed was released in April 1996.
+For more information: http://www.w3.org/Amaya
+
+Feedback and Contribution
+-------------------------
+As the main objective of this early release is to get feedback from future
+users, comments, questions, bug reports, and contributions are welcome.
+
+For communicating with the Amaya team, please use the mailing list:
+
+ o www-amaya@w3.org for user topics
+ For subscribing to the mailing list, send a message to:
+ www-amaya-request@w3.org
+ with a body containing the line:
+ subscribe
+ A history is maintained at the following URL:
+ http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-amaya/
+
+ o www-amaya-dev@w3.org for more technical topics (i.e. developers)
+ For subscribing to the mailing list, send a message to:
+ www-amaya-dev-request@w3.org
+ with a body containing the line:
+ subscribe
+ A history is maintained at the following URL:
+ http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-amaya-dev/
+
+ o www-amaya-doc@w3.org for the documentation and translations
+ For subscribing to the mailing list, send a message to:
+ www-amaya-doc-request@w3.org
+ with a body containing the line:
+ subscribe
+ A history is maintained at the following URL:
+ http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-amaya-doc/
+
+Copyright
+---------
+Amaya is covered by the W3C and INRIA Copyright Statements. Please read the
+COPYRIGHT files in sub-directories.
+
+How to Install Amaya Binary Release
+===================================
+
+On Windows platforms, the distribution includes an installer:
+A simple double-clic allows you to install Amaya (so skip this section).
+By default, the executable file Amaya is located at
+c:\Program Files\Amaya\windows\bin\amaya.exe
+and a shortcut is automatically created.
+
+On Unix platforms and if the distribution is a tar.gz file follow
+these instructions.
+
+Choose a place for Amaya
+------------------------
+Supposing the binary distribution was loaded fine, one must choose a place
+to install it. We suggest
+
+ * /usr/local for a UNIX system wide installation
+ * a user home directory for a personnal installation
+
+Extract the distribution
+------------------------
+Move the distribution to this directory, verify the rights on this directory
+allows you to create a directory and extract the distribution:
+tar xzvf amaya-system.tar.gz
+
+
+Set up the Environment and Start Amaya
+--------------------------------------
+The file Amaya/$platform/bin/amaya is the executable file Amaya, the
+best thing is to add this path to your PATH environment variable:
+When using sh, bash or another variant of the Bourne shell
+PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/Amaya/$platform/bin ; export $PATH
+Maybe this command should be added to the .login startup script.
+You can also add a link from /usr/bin/amaya or /usr/local/bin/amaya.
+
+Once done one can lauch amaya simply by typing "amaya" to the shell prompt.
+The Amaya main window should open and display a page of information.
+
+How to Compile Amaya Source Release
+===================================
+
+Extract the distribution
+------------------------
+Move the distribution to the correct directory (your $HOME for example).
+Extract the source tar file: amaya-src-release.tar.gz
+
+Set up the environment and start the compiling
+----------------------------------------------
+You have to create a new directory platform-name or obj within the
+directory Amaya. Then you have to call the configure application, which
+is in the Amaya directory, from within this subdirectory.
+For example, if we want to compile Amaya in a LINUX platform, we could do the
+following:
+[1]>cd Amaya
+[2]>mkdir linux
+[3]>cd linux
+[4]>../configure
+
+See http://www.w3.org/Amaya/User/Autoconf.html for more information.
+
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+## Amaya
+
+Amaya is a Web editor, i.e. a tool used to create and update documents directly on the Web.
+Browsing features are seamlessly integrated with the editing and remote access features in a uniform environment.
+This follows the original vision of the Web as a space for collaboration and not just a one-way publishing medium.
+
+
+- **Homepage:**
+- **Mailing list:**
+- **Source code:**
+- **Documentation:**
+
+
+Copyright © 1994-2012 INRIA and W3C® (MIT, ERCIM, Keio).
+
+
+## Distributions
+
+
+
+## Sources
+The Amaya source tree can be found in the directory Amaya of this project.
+(also available from ).
+
+
+
+## External Libraries
+Amaya uses several external librarie (libwww, Mesa, redland, wxWidgets, freetype).
+They can be found in the tar file located in the directory Library or in the Amaya page
+
+
+
+
+## Compilation
+
+
+
+## FAQ
+
+