CVS: packaging README.txt,1.3,1.4

Update of /cvsroot/mspgcc/packaging
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	README.txt 
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-MSPGCC - a port of the GNU tool chain for the Texas Instruments MSP430 microcontrollers
-
-=======================================================================================
+MSPGCC - a port of the GNU tool chain for the Texas Instruments MSP430 MCUs
 
+==============================================================================
 
-MSPGCC is a port of the GNU tools for the Texas Instruments MSP430 family of ultra-low
-power microcontrollers. If you have used the GNU toolchain for other platforms, such as
-Linux, you will be right at home with this port. Using the full C language often produces
-poor code on MCUs. Not so with mspgcc on the MSP430. You can use the full C language
-with good efficiency.
+MSPGCC is a port of the GNU tools for the Texas Instruments MSP430 family of
+ultra-low power microcontrollers. If you have used the GNU toolchain for other
+platforms, such as Linux, you will be right at home with this port. Using the
+full C language often produces poor code on MCUs. Not so with mspgcc on the
+MSP430. You can use the full C language with good efficiency.
 
 The following packages are included:
 
 binutils
 
-    The includes an assembler, linker and other tools for handling executable files. the current
-    version is based on the 030303 snapshot of binutils.
+    The includes an assembler, linker and other tools for handling executable
+    files. The current version is based on release 2.16 of binutils.
 
 make and friends
 
-    The GNU make, diff, patch, cp, mkdir, mv and rm utilities are included, to make a more
-    complete development environment.
+    The GNU make, diff, patch, cp, mkdir, mv and rm utilities are included, to
+    make a more complete development environment.
 
 GCC C compiler
 
-    This is a full C89 compiler. It also supports much of C99 too. The MSP430 port supports
-    integers from 8 to 64 bits long, and 32 bit floating point numbers. The current version
-    is based on version 3.2.2 of GCC. It produces fast compact code.
+    This is a full C89 compiler. It also supports much of C99 too. The MSP430
+    port supports integers from 8 to 64 bits long, and 32 bit floating point
+    numbers. The current version is based on version 3.2.2 of GCC. It produces
+    fast compact code.
 
 GDB
 
-    This is a full featured command line debugger. It can be used to simulate the MSP430.
-    Used with msp430-gdbproxy it can be used to debug an in circuit MSP430, through the
-    parallel port JTAG tools supplied by Texas Instruments and some third parties. You could
-    even make your own. The circuit diagram is available from the Texas Instruments web site.
+    This is a full featured command line debugger. It can be used to simulate
+    the MSP430. Used with msp430-gdbproxy it can be used to debug an in
+    circuit MSP430, through the parallel port JTAG tools supplied by Texas
+    Instruments and some third parties. You could even make your own. The
+    circuit diagram is available from the Texas Instruments web site.
 
 gdbproxy
 
-    The gdbproxy program provides a TCP/IP to JTAG interface for the MSP430 FET JTAG device.
-    The TCP/IP side obeys the GNU remote debug protocol. It can, therefore, be used with GDB
-    or Insight to provide a full in-circuit debug environment for the MSP430.
+    The gdbproxy program provides a TCP/IP to JTAG interface for the MSP430
+    FET JTAG device. The TCP/IP side obeys the GNU remote debug protocol.
+    It can, therefore, be used with GDB or Insight to provide a full
+    in-circuit debug environment for the MSP430.
+    It supports the parallel port interface an the USB box (on Windows only).
 
 giveio
 
-    THIS PROGRAM IS ONLY REQUIRED FOR WINDOWS NT, 2000, and XP. IT IS NOT NEEDED TO USE THE TOOLS
-    ON MACHINES RUNNING WINDOWS 95, 98 or Me.
+    THIS PROGRAM IS ONLY REQUIRED FOR WINDOWS NT, 2000, and XP. IT IS NOT
+    NEEDED TO USE THE TOOLS ON MACHINES RUNNING WINDOWS 95, 98 or Me.
 
-    The giveio driver allows programs free access to a computer's parallel port. This driver is
-    required when using gdbproxy on a Windows NT, 2000 or XP machine. Without it gdbproxy will be
-    blocked from controlling the parallel port, and hence the JTAG tool.
+    The giveio driver allows programs free access to a computer's parallel
+    port. This driver is required when using gdbproxy on a Windows NT, 2000
+    or XP machine. Without it gdbproxy will be blocked from controlling the
+    parallel port, and hence the JTAG tool.
 
 msp430-jtag, msp430-bsl
 
-    These tools can download elf, intel-hex and TI-text files trough JTAG (parallel interface)
-    or BSL (serial port).
+    These tools can download elf, intel-hex and TI-text files trough JTAG
+    (parallel port interface) or BSL (serial port).
 
 msp430-downloader
 
-    Graphical frontend for msp430-jtag. This makes it easier to associate .a43 or .elf
-    files to the downloader.
+    Graphical frontend for msp430-jtag. This makes it easier to associate
+    .a43 or .elf files to the downloader.
+
+msp430-dco
+
+    This tool can measure the DCO clock settings or print the clock settings
+    for a given frequency.
+
+TI-Text tools
+
+    ihex2titext and titext2ihex are tools to convert from an to TI-Text.
+
+The MSPGCC documentation includes a manual and FAQ for this toolchain and
+a great number of examples server as demostration for the compiler and
+assembler, for makefiles, and for the add on libraries libmspgcc,
+libcommandline and libspi. There are separeate readme files for the examples.
 
 
 The home page for the GNU tools is
     http://www.gnu.org
 
-Source code and full documentation for the generic tools is available from this site.
+Source code and full documentation for the generic tools is available from
+this site.
 
 The home page for the MSP430 port is:
     http://mspgcc.sourceforge.net
 
-Source code for all GPL licenced components of the MSP430 port, and documentation for MSP430
-aspects of the tools is available from this site. You will also find a mailing list for mspgcc
-users.
+Source code for all GPL licenced components of the MSP430 port, and
+documentation for MSP430 aspects of the tools is available from this site.
+You will also find a mailing list for mspgcc users.



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