Toba README file
March 6, 1998


This is Toba, a freely distributable system for translating Java
code into C code.  Toba comes from the Sumatra Group, part of the
Liquid Software Project of the Department of Computer Science at
The University of Arizona.

The gc subdirectory, included by permission, is version 4.13a
of the Boehm-Dermers-Weiner conservative garbage collector.  It is 
covered by its own copyright; see gc/README.

The biss/biss-0.87 subdirectory, included by permission, is version 0.87 
of the BISS AWT package.  Additionally the C and H files in the biss 
subdirectory are derived from BISS AWT sources.  The BISS AWT is 
covered by its own copyright; see biss/biss-0.87/LICENSE.BISS-AWT.

The first beta version of Toba was known as Juice.

Documentation in HTML form is contained in the doc subdirectory.
Installation instructions are given in the "install.html" file.

Toba currently does not support Java version 1.1 or higher.
To build Toba, you will need version 1.0.2 of the Java Developers Kit (JDK).
For the Irix version, see
    http://www.sgi.com/Fun/Free_webtools.html
For Linux, see
    http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux.html
For Solaris and Windows NT, see
    http://java.sun.com/products/JDK/1.0.2/index.html


Additional information about the Sumatra project may be found at
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/sumatra/.