This is a Perl toolkit for parsing AMF data.

AMF is Academic Metadata Format.  Specified at 
http://amf.openlib.org/doc/amf.html

This package's documentation (HTML) is in doc/ directory, as
well as in the source files (POD).

Installation is usual: "perl Makefile.PL", "make", 
"make test", su to become root user, "make install".

After installing you should have amfch utility in your path.


REQUIREMENTS
============

Perl 5.8
XML::Parser::Expat (standard part of Perl)
Digest::MD5


ReDIF-perl
==========

This package provides some ReDIF-related functions.  It also
contains copies of some of the modules of the ReDIF-perl
suite.  Newer versions of those modules you'll find at
http://all.repec.org/ReDIF-perl/

It is not necessary for AMF-perl to work.


COPYRIGHT
=========

Copyright (C) 2004-5 Ivan Kurmanov for ACIS project,
http://acis.openlib.org/


This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2, as
published by the Free Software Foundation.
 
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.
 
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA



$Id: README,v 1.6 2005/10/07 19:22:58 ivan Exp $

