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@@ -6,16 +6,15 @@
 \section{What is wxWindows?}
 
 wxWindows is a C++ framework providing GUI (Graphical User
-Interface) and other facilities on more than one platform.  Version 2.0 currently
-supports MS Windows (16-bit, Windows 95 and Windows NT), Unix with GTK+, and Unix with Motif.
-A Mac port is in an advanced state, an OS/2 port and a port to the MGL graphics library
-have been started.
+Interface) and other facilities on more than one platform.  Version 2 currently
+supports MS Windows (16-bit, Windows 95 and Windows NT), Unix with GTK+, Unix with Motif,
+and Mac. An OS/2 port is in progress.
 
 wxWindows was originally developed at the Artificial Intelligence
-Applications Institute, University of Edinburgh, for internal use.
-wxWindows has been released into the public domain in the hope
-that others will also find it useful. Version 2.0 is written and
-maintained by Julian Smart, Robert Roebling, Vadim Zeitlin and others.
+Applications Institute, University of Edinburgh, for internal use,
+and was first made publicly available in 1993.
+Version 2 is a vastly improved version written and maintained by
+Julian Smart, Robert Roebling, Vadim Zeitlin and many others.
 
 This manual discusses wxWindows in the context of multi-platform
 development.\helpignore{For more detail on the wxWindows version 2.0 API
@@ -44,9 +43,9 @@ Since wxWindows was started, several other free or almost-free GUI frameworks ha
 emerged. However, none has the range of features, flexibility, documentation and the
 well-established development team that wxWindows has.
 
-As public domain software and a project open to everyone, wxWindows has
+As open source software, wxWindows has
 benefited from comments, ideas, bug fixes, enhancements and the sheer
-enthusiasm of users, especially via the Internet. This gives wxWindows a
+enthusiasm of users. This gives wxWindows a
 certain advantage over its commercial competitors (and over free libraries
 without an independent development team), plus a robustness against
 the transience of one individual or company. This openness and
@@ -54,10 +53,10 @@ availability of source code is especially important when the future of
 thousands of lines of application code may depend upon the longevity of
 the underlying class library.
 
-Version 2.0 goes much further than previous versions in terms of generality and features,
+Version 2 goes much further than previous versions in terms of generality and features,
 allowing applications to be produced
 that are often indistinguishable from those produced using single-platform
-toolkits such as Motif and MFC.
+toolkits such as Motif, GTK+ and MFC.
 
 The importance of using a platform-independent class library cannot be
 overstated, since GUI application development is very time-consuming,
@@ -66,9 +65,9 @@ Code can very quickly become obsolete if it addresses the wrong
 platform or audience.  wxWindows helps to insulate the programmer from
 these winds of change. Although wxWindows may not be suitable for
 every application (such as an OLE-intensive program), it provides access to most of the functionality a
-GUI program normally requires, plus some extras such as network programming
-and PostScript output, and can of course be extended as needs dictate.  As a bonus, it provides
-a cleaner programming interface than the native
+GUI program normally requires, plus many extras such as network programming,
+PostScript output, and HTML rendering; and it can of course be extended as needs dictate.  As a bonus, it provides
+a far cleaner and easier programming interface than the native
 APIs. Programmers may find it worthwhile to use wxWindows even if they
 are developing on only one platform.
 
@@ -80,8 +79,8 @@ here are some of the benefits:
 \item You get the source.
 \item Available on a variety of popular platforms.
 \item Works with almost all popular C++ compilers and Python.
-\item Over 40 example programs.
-\item Over 900 pages of printable and on-line documentation.
+\item Over 50 example programs.
+\item Over 1000 pages of printable and on-line documentation.
 \item Includes Tex2RTF, to allow you to produce your own documentation
 in Windows Help, HTML and Word RTF formats.
 \item Simple-to-use, object-oriented API.
@@ -97,7 +96,7 @@ in Windows Help, HTML and Word RTF formats.
 \item Under MS Windows, support for creating metafiles and copying
 them to the clipboard.
 \item An API for invoking help from applications.
-\item Ready to use HTML window (supporting a subset of HTML).
+\item Ready-to-use HTML window (supporting a subset of HTML).
 \item Dialog Editor for building dialogs.
 \item Network support via a family of socket and protocol classes.
 \item Support for platform independent image procesing.
@@ -222,9 +221,11 @@ Metrowerks CodeWarrior.
 
 \section{Availability and location of wxWindows}
 
-wxWindows is available by anonymous FTP and World Wide Web
+\winhelponly{wxWindows is available by anonymous FTP and World Wide Web
+from ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin and/or http://www.wxwindows.org.}
+\winhelpignore{wxWindows is available by anonymous FTP and World Wide Web
 from \urlref{ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin}{ftp://www.remstar.com/pub/wxwin} 
-and/or \urlref{http://www.wxwindows.org}{http://www.wxwindows.org}
+and/or \urlref{http://www.wxwindows.org}{http://www.wxwindows.org}.}
 
 You can also buy a CD-ROM using the form on the Web site, or by contacting:
 
@@ -246,11 +247,11 @@ the project over the years. Apologies for any unintentional omissions from this
 Yiorgos Adamopoulos, Jamshid Afshar, Alejandro Aguilar-Sierra, AIAI, Patrick Albert, Karsten Ballueder, Michael Bedward, Kai Bendorf, Yura Bidus, Keith 
 Gary Boyce, Chris Breeze, Pete Britton, Ian Brown, C. Buckley, Dmitri Chubraev, Robin Corbet, Cecil Coupe, Andrew Davison, Neil Dudman, Robin 
 Dunn, Hermann Dunkel, Jos van Eijndhoven, Tom Felici, Thomas Fettig, Matthew Flatt, Pasquale Foggia, Josep Fortiana, Todd Fries, Dominic Gallagher, 
-Wolfram Gloger, Norbert Grotz, Stefan Gunter, Bill Hale, Patrick Halke, Stefan Hammes, Guillaume Helle, Harco de Hilster, Cord Hockemeyer, Markus 
+Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia, Wolfram Gloger, Norbert Grotz, Stefan Gunter, Bill Hale, Patrick Halke, Stefan Hammes, Guillaume Helle, Harco de Hilster, Cord Hockemeyer, Markus 
 Holzem, Olaf Klein, Leif Jensen, Bart Jourquin, Guilhem Lavaux, Jan Lessner, Nicholas Liebmann, Torsten Liermann, Per Lindqvist, Thomas Runge, Tatu
-M\"{a}nnist\"{o}, Scott Maxwell, Thomas Myers, Oliver Niedung, Hernan Otero, Ian Perrigo, Timothy Peters, Giordano Pezzoli, Harri Pasanen, Thomaso Paoletti, 
+M\"{a}nnist\"{o}, Scott Maxwell, Thomas Myers, Oliver Niedung, Stefan Neis, Hernan Otero, Ian Perrigo, Timothy Peters, Giordano Pezzoli, Harri Pasanen, Thomaso Paoletti, 
 Garrett Potts, Marcel Rasche, Robert Roebling, Dino Scaringella, Jobst Schmalenbach, Arthur Seaton, Paul Shirley, Vaclav Slavik, Stein Somers, Petr Smilauer, Neil Smith, 
-Kari Syst\"{a}, Arthur Tetzlaff-Deas, Jonathan Tonberg, Jyrki Tuomi, Janos Vegh, Andrea Venturoli, Vadim Zeitlin, Xiaokun Zhu, Edward Zimmermann.
+Kari Syst\"{a}, Arthur Tetzlaff-Deas, Jonathan Tonberg, Jyrki Tuomi, David Webster, Janos Vegh, Andrea Venturoli, Vadim Zeitlin, Xiaokun Zhu, Edward Zimmermann.
 
 `Graphplace', the basis for the wxGraphLayout library, is copyright Dr. Jos
 T.J. van Eijndhoven of Eindhoven University of Technology. The code has
@@ -326,8 +327,8 @@ system it is created on and the version you are using. The library name for the
 GTK version of wxWindows 2.2 on Linux and Solaris will be libwx\_gtk-2.2.so.0.0.0,
 on HP-UX, it will be libwx\_gtk-2.2.sl, on AIX just libwx\_gtk.a etc.
 
-Under Windows, use the library wx.lib for stand-alone Windows
-applications, or wxdll.lib for creating DLLs.
+Under Windows, use the library wx.lib (release) or wxd.lib (debug) for stand-alone Windows
+applications, or wxdll.lib (wxdlld.lib) for creating DLLs.
 
 \section{Configuration}
 
