General Information
===================

BDSIM version 0.5_dev, Geant4 toolkit for radiation transport in accelerators

The official web site is:
	http://www.pp.rhul.ac.uk/twiki/bin/view/JAI/simulation

The official Geant4 web site is:
	http://geant4.web.cern.ch/geant4/


Maintained by Steve Malton (malton@pp.rhul.ac.uk),
Ilya Agapov (agapov@pp.rhul.ac.uk) and G.A.Blair (blair@pp.rhul.ac.uk)

This release x.x.2008



History
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v0.5-dev : x.x.08
v0.4 : 25.02.08
v0.3 : 26.01.07
v0.2 : 18.05.06
v0.1 : 15.11.05 
Beta : 05.05.05


Installation
===================

System requirements:

tested on:
    os: Linux (Fedora 3-5), MacOS X
    compiler: gcc 3.3.3, gcc 4.0.0

mandatory:
    Geant4.8.0 or higher

optional: 
    OpenGL (Mesa), ROOT 4.x (5.x<=10)  

to compile:

   %  ./configure
   %  make


Getting Started
===================

to run:
    bdsim [options]

f.e. 
    bdsim --file=line.gmad --output=root

to see the full list of options:

    bdsim --help


Some input examples are available in ./examples/ directory. 
For more details consult documentation

Directories
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parser/          : gmad parser
examples/        : sample lettices
docs/		 : documentation
utils/           : various "useful" scripts