TITLE

	BEAST - Building Environment All SysTems

VERSION

	V1 Charlie

AUTHOR
	MSD = Maverick Software Development
	BEAST - Jacco van Weert  <weertj@IAEhv.nl>
	B52   - Frans Slothouber <slothoub@xs4all.nl>

DESCRIPTION

	About one year ago the BEAST project started as result of the ancient
	IGL ((C) 1991 Akzo Research/MSD) and the MAGICBench ((C) 1994 RIF/MSD).

	BEAST offers the programmer an environment to develope Object-Based and/or
	Object-Oriented classes in _any_ language. Complete programs can be build by
	connecting methods to each other. B52 offers a FORTH based programming language
	which can be intergrated in BEAST. Classes written in B52 are portable to all
	computer systems which have access to BEAST. Building BEAST programs
	requires a whole new programming approach, altough it is possible to
	use BEAST classes in a 'ordinary' way, lies the true power of BEAST in
	the 'visual' part of BEAST by connecting classes without the need of
	any procedural program.


	The features of BEAST:

		* Object-based and Object-Oriented Engine.
		* Classes are language independent.
		* Dynamic Object creation.
		* Add and remove methods runtime.
		* Propagation/Delegation of methods throughout the whole object tree.
		* Create connection networks between methods.
		* Programs can be build only with objects and their connections.
		* Programs created in this way can serve as new class again.
		* Object-trees can consist out of objects from different tasks to
		  objects from different computer systems across a network.
		* All communication is done by TagLists.
		* B52, a FORTH language with BEAST/OO extensions, with B52 it is
		  possible to write portable classes. B52 is also used for data-files.
		  BEAST uses B52 for data-files and more, in this way data-files are
		  program _themselves_.
	
	For questions about BEAST don't hesitate to contact:
		weertj@IAEhv.nl


SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

	Amiga version:
		AmigaOS 2.0 or higher.
	
AVAILABILITY

	Aminet (Amiga version):
		ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/pub/aminet/dev/misc/BST_System.lha
		ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/pub/aminet/dev/misc/BST_SystemDocs.lha
	WWW:
		http://www.IAEhv.nl/users/weertj/BEAST/BEAST.html

	FTP:
		ftp://ftp.IAEhv.nl/users/weertj/

PRICE

	Free.
	The BEAST system library is free and may be used in public domain to
	commercial products with the now following restrictions;
	- In the product documentation the use of BEAST must be stated.
	- Because BEAST is new it is important to keep track of the applications
	  created with BEAST in order to maintain backward compatibility, therefore
	  BEAST programmers should registrate themselves.
	  Registration is free and in this way you will be added to the 'sort-of'
	  BEAST mailing list.
	- If your application is shareware or commercial, I want a free copy =).

	Registration: send a mail to weertj@IAEhv.nl with as subject "BEAST Registration"

	The registration is also interesting for those people who want to develop BEAST
	classes and want their 'Methods' and 'Tags' included in the BEAST.

DISTRIBUTABILITY

	BEAST
	  Copyright (C) 1996, Maverick Software Development, Jacco van Weert
	B52
	  Copyright (C) 1996, Maverick Software Development, Frans Slothouber

 PERMSSN    UID  GID    PACKED    SIZE  RATIO     CRC       STAMP          NAME
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[generic]                 4232    6616  64.0% -lh5- 1504 Apr 11  1996 BeastV1/C/BuildBeast
[generic]                 3953    6096  64.8% -lh5- ea93 Mar 30  1996 BeastV1/C/KillBeast
[generic]                 5458    8696  62.8% -lh5- bcb7 Apr 11  1996 BeastV1/C/BLogin
[generic]                 4220    6560  64.3% -lh5- 77e8 May  6  1996 BeastV1/C/BLogout
[generic]                 5267    8680  60.7% -lh5- 3e47 May  6  1996 beastv1/c/Users
[generic]                15025   30540  49.2% -lh5- 341d Sep  3  1996 beastv1/c/ccb52
[generic]                 6230   10136  61.5% -lh5- 9a7f Sep  2  1996 beastv1/c/ib52
[generic]                 4019    7548  53.2% -lh5- d6b5 Aug 13  1996 BeastV1/Libs/b52.library
[generic]                 2247    3784  59.4% -lh5- eb8c Sep  3  1996 BeastV1/Libs/beast.library
[generic]                 1456    2688  54.2% -lh5- 3324 Sep  3  1996 BeastV1/Classes/BFS_LockClass
[generic]                  974    1696  57.4% -lh5- 1ffa Sep  3  1996 BeastV1/Classes/BFS_MountClass
[generic]                  596     988  60.3% -lh5- 3605 Apr 29  1996 BeastV1/Classes/BFS_UserClass
[generic]                 1157    2116  54.7% -lh5- 9abc Apr 30  1996 BeastV1/Classes/BST_ApplicationClass
[generic]                  632    1048  60.3% -lh5- e635 Apr 29  1996 BeastV1/Classes/BST_BaseClass
[generic]                  535     876  61.1% -lh5- 9d4d Apr  4  1996 BeastV1/Classes/BST_EmptyClass
[generic]                 1233    2560  48.2% -lh5- 5e67 Apr 29  1996 BeastV1/Classes/BST_MemoryClass
[generic]                 1400    2536  55.2% -lh5- 05c4 May 27  1996 BeastV1/Classes/BST_SearchClass
[generic]                  871    1348  64.6% -lh5- 1028 Jun  5  1996 BeastV1/Classes/BST_StringToFFPClass
[generic]                  659    1128  58.4% -lh5- b6d9 Apr 29  1996 BeastV1/Classes/BST_TagListClass
[generic]                  532     872  61.0% -lh5- 0d19 Apr  3  1996 BeastV1/Classes/B52_EmptyClass
[generic]                  529     868  60.9% -lh5- 541f May 15  1996 BeastV1/Classes/B52_LoaderClass
[generic]                  120     246  48.8% -lh5- 786e May 30  1996 BeastV1/BST_BuildBeast
[generic]                  174     232  75.0% -lh5- 5106 Sep  3  1996 BeastV1/BST_Copyright.txt
[generic]                  131     282  46.5% -lh5- dc73 Apr  3  1996 BeastV1/BST_KillBeast
[generic]                  142     496  28.6% -lh5- 2293 Sep  3  1996 BeastV1/BST_Readme.txt
[generic]                   96     115  83.5% -lh5- e77a Sep  3  1996 BeastV1/BST_System.txt
[generic]                  169     225  75.1% -lh5- 626b Apr  3  1996 BeastV1/B52_Copyright.txt
[generic]                   35      35 100.0% -lh0- 99d0 Apr  3  1996 BeastV1/B52_System.txt
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 Total        28 files   62092  109011  57.0%            Sep  4  1996