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                        Welcome to the Cactus Code
                               Version 4.0
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The Cactus Code as a meta code that provides multiple computational
tools and applications in different scientific areas is (c) Copyright
by the Authors listed in the respective README and source files that
you will find scattered thru the directory structure of all the thorns
contained in the arrangements directory. This is a truly collaborative
development project that benefits from input of many people worldwide
and we try our best to give credit to every contribution. The cactus
code web page at 
                    http://www.cactuscode.org 
contains an extensive list of contributors to all the thorns that are
part of the Cactus Code project. This web page contains a description
of the features of the current version and lots of information that we
hope you find useful.

The flesh of the Cactus Code and the design of the project is (c)
Copyright 1997-99 by Gabrielle Allen, Tom Goodale, Joan Masso and Paul
Walker from the Numerical Relativity group of the Max-Planck-Institut
fuer Gravitationphysik / Albert Einstein Institute
(http://www.aei-potsdam.mpg.de). 

The Cactus Code is distributed under the GNU general public license
version 2 which is available in the file COPYING. All thorns in the
arrangements directory follow this license unless it is explicitly
stated otherwise in the corresponding README files.

Please, take a look at the documentation in the doc directory or check
the cactus web page for instructions on how to run the code, report
bugs, give feedback, etc.  

Thanks for using cactus. We hope you find it useful. Love it or hate
it, please let us know what you think.

- The Cactus Team 
cactus@cactuscode.org