G Arith README
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G Arith is a GTK+ based arithmetic quiz program for Unix/X. It
is fairly self-explanatory (I think), so I won't try to document
program usage much at all.

I decided to attempt this project because my sister wanted a
program she could use to brush up her math skills before going
back to school.  She was using Adventure Math for DOS, but it
didn't seem like two digit addition and subtraction was any way
to prepare for seventh grade.  I couldn't find a math quiz program
for Linux, and I had been looking at Thor Sigvaldason's XForms
tutorial in the Linux Journal, so I thought, "Hey, why not do it
myself..."  I have just finished moving it to the GTK+ toolkit from
XForms hoping to incorporate this into the GNOME project.  Doesn't 
yet conform to the GNOME style guide, though.

Platforms
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Unix/X11

You must have the GTK+ toolkit.  This is available from
ftp.gimp.org (in /pub/gtk?).  You need to get the 970916
release!

Also, you ought to get/compile/install the GNOME this program is
linked against libgnome and libgnomeui.  If you do not wish to
do this, just edit garith.c and remove the '#include <gnome.h>'
line and the call in main to gnome_init().  This will have no
effect on the program whatsoever (for now).  Later, hopefully,
this will be a full fledged GNOME applet and will require the
GNOME libs.

I have only run this on Intel/Linux, but I would assume that it
would work on other Platforms/Unices without problem. If you get
it to work on anything else, or, for that matter, if you don't,
I would like to know. You can reach me by e-mail at:
'cnm@sunset.net'.

Compilation
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Just peruse the Makefile for any changes that need be made, take
a look at the source code (if you want), and then just type
'make' to compile it.  After compilation, just copy the garith
executable to the directory of your choice (preferably in your
PATH environment variable) and you're all ready.

Operation
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Type 'garith'.  It gives you problems you reply with solutions.
Simple.

Credits
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I would like to thank Epic Megagames for making Adventure Math,
which inspired me to try and make a better arithmetic testing
program.  Not in any way to insult the product, but I thought
that it (at least the shareware version) was incredibly lacking
in a one major area: difficulty. On difficulty level 10 (the
highest) we're still only dealing with 2 digit numbers.  Also,
the shareware version only supports addition and subtraction,
which is not acceptable for anyone above third grade.

Idea, coding, etc.: Micah Stetson (cnm@sunset.net)
Idea for generating division problems: 
	Clint Stetson (cnm@sunset.net)
	Sure, it seems simple, but it eluded me for a few days
	until the seemingly obvious solution now in use was
	presented to me by my dad, thanks.

Copyright
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This and all other files included with this distribution are
Copyright 1997 Micah Stetson.  They are distributed completely free
under the terms of the GNU General Public License, see the file
COPYING for details.
