
			      EB Library
		 C Library for accessing CD-ROM books


EB Library is a C library for accessing CD-ROM books.  It can be built
on UNIX derived systems.  EB Library supports to access CD-ROM books of
EB, EBG, EBXA, EBXA-C, S-EBXA and EPWING formats.  CD-ROM books of those
formats are popular in Japan.  Since CD-ROM books themseves are stands
on the ISO 9660 format, you can mount the discs by the same way as other
ISO 9660 discs.

EB Library also provides some utility commands:

	ebappendix	format appendix files for a CD-ROM book.
	ebfont		get font data of local defined characters in
			a CD-ROM book.
	ebinfo		list information about a CD-ROM book.
	ebrefile	refile a catalog file in a CD-ROM book.
	ebunzip		uncompress a CD-ROM book.
	ebzip		compress a CD-ROM book.
	ebzipinfo	output information about a compressed CD-ROM
			book.


EB Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
any later version.

EB Library 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.


See the file NEWS for a list of major changes in the current release.
See the file INSTALL for compilation and installation instructions.

You can get the latest EB Library from

	ftp://ftp.sra.co.jp/pub/misc/eb/

You can get information about EB Library from

	http://www.sra.co.jp/people/m-kasahr/eb/

Mail comments and bug reports for these programs to

	m-kasahr@sra.co.jp

in Japanese or English.
