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1 Support

There are various sources to get support and additional informations related to Geek Gadgets.

Primary source for support are the Geek Gadgets mailing lists, dedicated to discuss and coordinate various aspects of the Geek Gadgets project.

Another dedicated place is the Geek Gadgets homepage, which should present most statically available informations related to Geek Gadgets.

Sometimes Geek Gadgets related issues are discussed too in Usenet Newsgroups covering specific programming topics.

Almost all packages are coming with their own documentation. This is, of course, the primary place for informations concerning specific packages, although there might be some additional stuff related to Geek Gadgets. See section 7.2 Package topics.

If you intend to develop software for the AmigaOS, you can't allow to miss the Amiga Developer CD.

1.1 Mailing Lists

Cronus maintains a number of mailing lists for people to discuss Geek Gadgets related topics and get timely information about the Geek Gadgets. These lists are managed by the Majordomo mail server. Majordomo responds to commands that appear in the body of messages that you send it, and sends back replies to you via email, containing either the requested information or status results for commands you have asked it to run on your behalf.

For example, send email to Majordomo@ninemoons.com with the body of the message containing "help", to get a "help message" from the Majordomo server.

To see what "lists" are available, send an email containing "lists" in the body of the message.

1.1.1 Majordomo help

This is a sample output from sending the Majordomo server a 'help' command. Note that it is eventually out of date at this point.

>>>> help
This is the "Majordomo" mailing list manager, version 1.94.1. 

In the description below items contained in []'s are optional.  When
providing the item, do not include the []'s around it.  Items in angle
brackets, such as <address>, are meta-symbols that should be replaced
by appropriate text without the angle brackets.

It understands the following commands:

    subscribe <list> [<address>]
	Subscribe yourself (or <address> if specified) to the named <list>.
	
    unsubscribe <list> [<address>]
	Unsubscribe yourself (or <address> if specified) from the named <list>.
	"unsubscribe *" will remove you (or <address>) from all lists.  This
	_may not_ work if you have subscribed using multiple addresses.

    get <list> <filename>
        Get a file related to <list>.

    index <list>
        Return an index of files you can "get" for <list>.

    which [<address>]
	Find out which lists you (or <address> if specified) are on.

    who <list>
	Find out who is on the named <list>.

    info <list>
	Retrieve the general introductory information for the named <list>.

    intro <list>
	Retrieve the introductory message sent to new users.  Non-subscribers
	may not be able to retrieve this.

    lists
	Show the lists served by this Majordomo server.

    help
	Retrieve this message.

    end
	Stop processing commands (useful if your mailer adds a signature).

Commands should be sent in the body of an email message to
Majordomo@ninemoons.com.  Multiple commands can be processed provided
each occurs on a separate line.

Commands in the "Subject:" line are NOT processed.

If you have any questions or problems, please contact
Majordomo-Owner@ninemoons.com.

1.1.2 Majordomo lists

This is a sample output from sending the Majordomo server a 'lists' command. Note that it is probably out of date at this point.

>>>> lists
Majordomo@ninemoons.com serves the following lists:

  adg-a4000t              A4000T specific discussion
  adg-dbase               discussion on research & data structure
  adg-misc                Amiga Documentation Group, general discussion
  areport                 Amiga Report distribution list (moderated)
  exp2260                 Discussions about the upcoming Explorer2260 game.
  gg                      Geek Gadgets - general discussion list
  gg-announce             Important Geek Gadgets announcements (moderated)
  gg-cvslog               CVS log messages for Geek Gadgets
  gg-gcc                  Discussions about GNU C compiler port
  gg-ixemul               Discussions about Unix Emulation library issues
  gg-java                 Discussions about Geek Gadgets Java support
  gg-pos                  pOS Geek Gadgets topics (registered pOS developers only)
  gg-projects             Discussions about ongoing Geek Gadgets projects
  gg-x                    Discussions about Geek Gadgets X Windows port
  mm                      Discussions about the Maim & Mangle strategy game.
  picasso                 Picasso II Graphics Board Mailing List
  pos                     closed list for registered pOS developers

Use the 'info <list>' command to get more information
about a specific list.

1.1.3 Previous Mailing Lists

There have been two other mailing lists (amiga-gcc-info and amiga-gcc-port, both hosted at nic.funet.fi) dedicated to the Amiga gcc port long before the Geek Gadgets project has been started. See section B.2 ADE origin.

Around late 1995/early 1996, many of the subscribers of this mailing lists migrated to the Geek Gadgets mailing lists. Although they are still running and may be retained for later revival, there has been no traffic at all for month' now. Therefore they are considered obsolete. Please use the Geek Gadgets mailing lists only (see section 1.1 Mailing Lists).

1.2 World Wide Web

The Geek Gadgets master website is located at http://www.ninemoons.com/GG/. You'll find a HTML version of this documentation there as well as some additional informations and services.

If you are living in europe you might want to try one of the european mirrors for convenience, see section 5 Mirror Sites.

1.3 Usenet Newsgroups

There are some Usenet Newsgroups, where Geek Gadgets related issues are discussed too sometimes.

1.3.1 comp.sys.amiga.programmer

This group is the primary source for AmigaOS related programming informations.

1.3.2 comp.sys.be.programmer

This group is the primary source for BeOS related programming informations.

1.3.3 gnu.*

The Newsgroup hierarchy gnu.* is dedicated to discussions of various aspects of the GNU project. Since many of the packages currently included with Geek Gadgets are ports of GNU packages you may find valuable informations there. See section A GNU and the FSF.

1.4 Documentation

Many of the Geek Gadgets packages have documentation in "texinfo" format, which can be automatically processed to produce AmigaGuide, GNU Info, Postscript and HTML format documents. These are normally installed in GG:[guide/info/ps]. The links below are targetting this files, you may reach them from here whith a proper installation of Geek Gadgets in place.

A
section `Top' in The autoconf Manual.
section `Top' in The automake Manual.
B
section `Top' in The bfd Manual.
section `Top' in The binutils Manual.
section `Top' in The bison Manual.
C
section `Top' in The calc Manual.
section `Top' in The cfg-paper Manual.
section `Top' in The configure Manual.
section `Top' in The cpio Manual.
section `Top' in The cpp Manual.
section `Top' in The cvs Manual.
section `Top' in The cvslient Manual.
D
section `Top' in The dc Manual.
section `Top' in The dejagnu Manual.
section `Top' in The diff Manual.
section `Top' in The dld Manual.
section `Top' in The dvidvi Manual.
E
section `Top' in The ed Manual.
section `Top' in The emacs Manual.
F
section `Top' in The fd2inline Manual.
section `Top' in The fileutils Manual.
section `Top' in The find Manual.
G
section `Top' in The g++ FAQ.
section `Top' in The gawk Manual.
section `Top' in The gcc Manual.
section `Top' in The gcc-amigaos Manual.
section `Top' in The gdb Manual.
section `Top' in The gdbint Manual.
section `Top' in The gdbm Manual.
section `Top' in The git Manual.
section `Top' in The gmp Manual.
section `Top' in The gperf Manual.
section `Top' in The gprof Manual.
section `Top' in The guile-prog Manual.
section `Top' in The guile-prog Manual.
section `Top' in The gzip Manual.
I
section `Top' in The id-utils Manual.
section `Top' in The indent Manual.
section `Top' in The info Manual.
section `Top' in The info-stnd Manual.
section `Top' in The iostream Manual.
L
section `Top' in The ld Manual.
section `Top' in The ldint Manual.
section `Top' in The libg++ Manual.
section `Top' in The libnix Manual.
M
section `Top' in The m4 Manual.
section `Top' in The make Manual.
section `Top' in The makeinfo Manual.
P
section `Top' in The ptx Manual.
R
section `Top' in The rpm Manual.
S
section `Top' in The sh-utils Manual.
section `Top' in The sharutils Manual.
section `Top' in The stabs Manual.
section `Top' in The standards Manual.
T
section `Top' in The tar Manual.
section `Top' in The termcap Manual.
section `Top' in The texinfo Manual.
section `Top' in The textuitls Manual.
section `Top' in The time Manual.
W
section `Top' in The wdiff Manual.
section `Top' in The wget Manual.

1.5 Amiga Developer CD

The Amiga Developer CD is, to the date of this writing, the only remaining, yet pretty complete official source for any informations and material from the AmigaOS copyright owner.

You may obtain it from you local dealer.

Among various other tools and informations it contains the Native Developer Kit (NDK).

Parts of the CD content are available elsewhere:

You can obtain the includes and some developer tools from any Fish CD and some other CD's as well.

The AmigaOS includes are available in directory cdrom/bbs/cbm on ftp://ftp.dfv.rwth-aachen.de.

The latest package is nduk-v40.lha. It includes includes (asm and C), fd-files and a few developer tools (Atom, Alink, ...).

1.6 AmigaOS Documentation

[Details under construction]


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