
				GARLIC HISTORY

Garlic was born September 30, 1998. At that time I needed a good molecular
visualization program and almost the only thing at hand was RasMol. I had
some hard time with RasMol so I tryed to adapt it to my needs. However, I
realized that it is very hard to read and change RasMol source code, so I
decided to write my own molecular visualization program.

Further, I decided to learn programming for the X window system, and this is
my first serious program written for X11.

Since 1997 I use GNU/Linux software, so I concluded that it would be fair to
add something useful and modern to the existing collection of free software
because this software significantly improved my working conditions.

Garlic was forgotten few times, for months, as I had some other things to
do, but now it is finaly operative.

Though the version which is currently available is just a prerelease
version, it is very stable and robust, at least on systems which were
available for testing here at University of Osijek, Croatia.


Osijek, 20. March 2000					Damir Zucic


