	@(#)README.cps	1.3  06/08/99

Version 1.2
	cpsencode had a bug in 3.2, fixed now 06/08/99 PW

Version 1.1

This directory contains 2 programs that facilitates
the encoding and decoding of Complete PostScript files.
CPS files contain a plot and all the commands and data
files needed to recreate the plot.  With a CPS file you
can later decide to apply a different filter or do something
quite different that requires access to the actual data.
The two programs are

	cpsencode - encode script and files at end of PS file
	cpsdecode - extract scrips and files from PS file

By default, the encoding is done using bzip2 for compression and
uuencode/uudecode for ASCII representation.  If you
have strong reasons to use gzip, zip, or compress instead of
bzip2 see the comments in cps.h for what to do.  Likewise,
if you cannot use uu[en|de]code, see cps.h on how to replace
them.  Finally, I use the Unix utility cat; if you dont have
that you must redefine CAT in cps.h with a similar utility.

The single man page cps.man contains references to both
programs.  You may want to install links called cpsencode.l
and cpsdecode.l to this file.

Paul Wessel (wessel@soest.hawaii.edu)
SOEST, University of Hawaii
February 19, 1999
