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IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR THIS CD-ROM
(Updated 12-24-93)
This file contains important information that applies to this particular
CD-ROM. For general information about the Amiga Library CD-ROM's, infor-
mation about the contents of this particular CD-ROM, and other important
information, read the various files in the "Information" directory. The
files "Changes" and "Feedback" may be of particular interest. Also be sure
to read the LEGAL-NOTICE, COPYRIGHT, WARRANTY, and SHAREWARE if you have
not done so before.
This is the second CD-ROM in my "Fresh Fish" series, which is intended to
eventually be a monthly production. A combination of factors conspired to
keep this CD-ROM from being produced in mid December, including dealing
with the virus on the first CD-ROM and being out of town for almost 3 weeks
total between early November and mid December. Then the unexpected (on my
part) shutdown of the CD-ROM pressing plant that I normally use, from
12/23/93 to 1/2/94 torpedoed plans to get the CD-ROM out before the end of
December. It's still called the December CD-ROM though, because it was
basically created and ready to go in December, it just couldn't be pressed
until after the holidays.
Progress is being made on a system to make browsing the contents of the
CD-ROM much easier, and for finding specific things on each CD-ROM and
across a series of CD-ROM's. I hoping to have all the pieces in place in
time to include it on the next CD-ROM. Users have also asked for an easy
way to make floppy disk copies from the contents of the floppy disks
included on the CD-ROM, and I am pursuing several different possibilities
for filling this need.
This CD-ROM contains approximately 107Mb of new material, 215Mb of useful
tools including gcc 2.5.7, emacs 18.59, PasTeX, etc, and 278Mb of older
material (such as floppy distributions). All of the source to the supplied
GNU binaries is provided and I have personally built all the supplied
binaries from the supplied source (except GNU emacs) to verify that the
binaries are in fact recreatable from the supplied source code. For more
information about the contents of the CD-ROM see the files in the
"Information" directory.
INSTALLATION
This CD-ROM contains lots of utilities that are ready to run directly off
the CD-ROM. This will be slower than running off a hard drive, but CD-ROM
drives are improving constantly, so if you have one of the newer double,
triple, or quad speed drives, this should not be too painful. You may be
able to save as much as a 200Mb of disk space by running directly off the
CD-ROM.
For this CD-ROM all of the setup necessary to run most things off the
CD-ROM is for you to run the script FreshFish-Dec93:Useful/s/FFCD-Startup
from your S:User-Startup file, like this:
if exists FreshFish-Dec93:Useful/s/FFCD-Startup
echo "Running FreshFish-Dec93:Useful/s/FFCD-Startup..."
execute FreshFish-Dec93:Useful/s/FFCD-Startup
endif
This should be added to your S:User-Startup before the LoadWB command, so
that the WorkBench will know about the directories added to the command
search path. Once you have added this to your S:User-Startup, you will
need to reboot for it to take effect.
If you want a more customized environment, you can look at what the
FFCD-Startup script is doing and use appropriate bits and pieces in your
own S:User-Startup or S:FFCD-Startup. Future disks may have a more
sophisticated method of customizing the environment to allow things to run
off the CD-ROM.
*** IMPORTANT ***
Some of the GNU utilities, gcc in particular, require a
very large stack. You need to arrange that the CLI/Shell
or whatever you run these programs from has a large stack
set. In a CLI you can set this with a command of the
form "stack 100000" (100000 is what I use). You can also
put this command in your S:Shell-Startup file to get large
stacks for all CLI/Shell startups, without having to
remember to manually set the stack each time. Really huge
compiles, like recompiling the compiler itself, may require
even more stack space (like 300Kb or more).
GNU UTILITIES
* This CD-ROM contains ports of various GNU utilities that are in
various stages of stability. See Useful/dist/gnu/README for
further information.
* I am very picky about adhering completely to the conditions of the
GNU Public License, so all of the GNU code that goes on one of the
CD-ROM's has to be build and tested the first time it is included
and each time it is updated. Expect this portion of the CD-ROM to
continually grow with each CD-ROM release, as more ports of GNU
code are added.
SAS C INCOMPATIBILITY
* The assign of lib: used by this CD-ROM conflicts with Lattice/SAS
C, which wants to use the same assign. I don't have a recommended
way of dealing with this conflict yet. I have some ideas though,
and hopefully this won't be an issue for future CD-ROMs.
* The simplest solution for now may be to patch your SAS C
executables to look for SLB: instead of LIB:. However this
will cause problems with Makefiles and other such files that
reference LIB:.
USER FEEDBACK NEEDED
* I am always interested in hearing about things that might make
this CD-ROM more useful for users. It is particularly important
at this stage that I get feedback from users about problems that
need fixing, or suggestions on how to make the CD-ROM more useful.
* You can FAX your comments to me at (602) 917-0917, however
please understand that I may not be able to respond to, or even
acknowledge receipt of, every problem report and suggestion that
arrives.
CHANGES SINCE LAST FRESH FISH CD-ROM
* See the file Information/Changes for a summary of changes since
the last Fresh Fish CD-ROM.
-Fred Fish ><>