29 January 2001

This is EPL version 0.2.  EPL (Emacs Perl) is a replacement for
Perlmacs that uses pipes instead of embedding.  This allows it to work
with different Emacs, XEmacs, and Perl versions without
recompilation.  See http://john-edwin-tobey.org/perlmacs/ for news and
the latest version.

This is ALPHA software.  It is incomplete, not accurately documented,
and mostly untested.  USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.

  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
  WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
  General Public License for more details.

Currently, EPL requires at least Emacs 21 or XEmacs 21(?) and Perl
5.005.  I hope to get these numbers down a bit.


INSTALLATION

    perl Makefile.PL
    make
    make install

Copy the Lisp files from the elisp directory to where Emacs looks for
libraries.  Load them in Emacs with `load-file' or the `-l' command
line option.  Refer to the Emacs manual for details about loading
libraries.

See the Emacs::Lisp documentation for further information.


COPYING

EPL is copyright (C) 1998-2001 by John Tobey,
<jtobey@john-edwin-tobey.org>.

You may distribute EPL under the terms of either the Perl Artistic
License (as distributed with Perl 5.6.0) or the GNU General Public
License.

  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  along with this program; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to the
  Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
  MA 02111-1307 USA


Enjoy!
-John