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+                                A N T I D O T E
+ 
+  What is it? 
+  -----------
+  
+  Antidote is the Java based GUI interface to the Ant build tool.
+
+  Status
+  ------
+  
+  Antidote is in the early stages of development. Its usefulnes is limited, and
+  will not be distributed with the binary versions of Ant until it is deemed
+  featureful and robust enough for end user use. That being said, it currently
+  will load an Ant build.xml file, allow you to edit some of the file's
+  properties, save it, and launch a build starting at any target in the
+  project. 
+
+  The Latest Version
+  ------------------
+
+  The latest version is the current CVS version, which may or may not be useful
+  at any given time. The source code is not being base-lined at any specific
+  version at this time.
+
+  Documentation
+  -------------
+
+  Any documentation that exists for Antidote can be found in the antidote/docs
+  directory. Documentation is primarily developement based documentation as
+  Antidote is not yet mature enough for reliable user documentation.
+
+  Building
+  --------
+
+  Antidote requres JAXP 1.0.1 from Sun (http://java.sun.com/xml). Some time in
+  the future it is hoped at any w3c based XML will be usable, but at the 
+  current time the Sun library is needed. The easiest way to install the
+  jaxp.jar and parsers.jar file that comes with the distribution is to copy 
+  them into your $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/ext directory.
+
+  There is a build.xml file in the same directory as this file that will work
+  with Ant 1.2. It is recommended that Ant be built first (from ../..), 
+  followed by this directory. By default, the compiled classes will be written
+  to ~/built/antidote/classes, but the JAR file and launch scripts are written
+  to the Ant build directory (~/build/ant).
+
+  Running
+  -------
+
+  Antidote requires at least Java 1.2 to run. It will *not* work with JVM
+  version Blackdown-1.3.0-RC1, but Blackdown-1.3.0-FCS does work. So upgrade.
+
+  Upon successful building of Ant and Antidote (in that order), go to
+  ~/build/ant/bin and run "antidote". You will probably have to set the
+  environment variable "ANT_HOME" to "~/build/ant" in the shell that you launch
+  antidote from. If desired, you can provide the build file to launch at statup
+  as the first argument on the command line to "antidote".
+
+  Licensing
+  ---------
+
+  This software is licensed under the terms you may find in the file 
+  named "LICENSE" provided with this distribution.
+
+  Thanks for using Antidote.
+
+                                          The Apache Jakarta Project
+                                         <http://jakarta.apache.org/>