Aminet 3/Aminet 3 - July 1994.iso/ReadMe

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THE AMINET CDROM 3, JULY 1994
=============================

(Siehe Docs/LiesMich für eine deutsche Version dieses Dokuments)


TABLE OF CONTENTS
-----------------

1.  Introduction
2.  The pricing of this CD
3.  What is Aminet?
4.  What's on this CD?
5.  How do I access this CD?
6.  What file formats are used?
7.  Where do I access Aminet?
8.  How to contribute?
9.  Who made this CD?
10. Useful stuff
11. Disclaimer



1. Introduction
---------------

Welcome to the Aminet CDROM 3, June 1994 edition.  This disc contains
all of the software uploaded to the Aminet Internet archive since the
release of Aminet CDROM 2 plus some older files, almost all of it
previously unreleased.  There is a total of more than 3500 applications,
utilities, games, graphics, and other files for the Commodore Amiga
series computer.


2. The pricing of this CD
-------------------------

This CD is being sold under two names.

- The "Aminet Gold CD" costs a bit more. It includes a $2 payment for
  Aminet and its otherwise unpaid administrators but is generally about
  $6 more expensive due to taxes and dealer margins.

- The "Aminet Share CD" has been made for the very lowest price
  possible. None of the people who actually built and maintain Aminet
  and this CD receive any payment for the CD, and no donation is made
  for Aminet hardware.

If you feel the compilation of this CD is worth it, you are encouraged
to send a small donation to Aminet and its Administrators.  We propose
about $5 to $10 per CD you've bought or plan to buy, but any amount is
welcome.  The total is still less than you pay for most other (worse)
CD's, and you can try before you buy.  Note that buying the Gold CD and
not donating is perfectly OK, getting $2 from all of the buyers is still
a lot better than $10 from the very few who actually remember to pay :)

Whatever money comes in will contribute to continued support, better
access software and wider availability of and therefore more files on
Aminet.

The addresses where you can send your donations:

  Bank transfers           Cash/checks
  --------------           -----------

- Switzerland

  Aminet                   Aminet
  Account: 06.728.899.05   Urban Müller
  Zuger Kantonalbank       Schulhausstrasse 83
  SWIFT Bank code:         6312 Steinhausen
  KB ZG CH 22

- Germany

  Matthias Scheler         Aminet
  Account: 314 010 810     Matthias Scheler
  Sparkasse Paderborn      Schuetztenstrasse 18
  Bank ID: 472 501 01      33178 Borchen

- USA
                           Amiga Library Services
                           Aminet Shareware Account
                           610 N. Alma School Road, Suite 18
                           Chandler, AZ  85224-3687



A new Aminet CD appears every three months. You can expect about 300M of
new software on every CD, plus the currently most popular files, plus
enough older files to fill up the CD to its limit. Order subscriptions
or single CDs from the following companies:



  Company                      Offerings
  -------                      ---------

- Germany/Europe

  Stefan Ossowski's            Aminet Gold                DM 29.80
  Schatztruhe GmbH                  subscriptions         DM 24.80 per CD
  Veronikastr. 33              Aminet Share               DM 19.80
  D-45131 Essen                     subscriptions         DM 19.80 per CD
  Germany
                               Shipping national prepaid  DM  4.00
  Phone [phone]                  cash on delivery  DM  8.00
  Fax   [phone]         Shipping Europe prepaid    DM  8.00
                                        cash on delivery  DM 25.00
                               Shipping overseas prepaid  DM 15.00

  No credit cards. Send cash as check or in a registered letter.
  Subscriptions don't include shipping. For money transfers use:
  Deutsche Bank Essen, Bank ID 36070050, Account number 257901900



- Germany/Europe/Worldwide

  GTI GmbH                     Aminet Gold                DM 29.80
  Zimmersmühlenweg 73          Aminet Share               DM 19.80
  D-61440 Oberursel
  Germany

  Phone [phone]         Shipping national prepaid  DM  6.00
  Fax   [phone]                    cash on delivery DM 10.00
                               Shipping Europe prepaid    DM 10.00
  [e-mail]   Shipping Overseas prepaid  DM 20.00

  All major credit cards accepted, they count as prepaid.
  No subscriptions. Dealer inquiries welcome.



- USA/Canada

  Amiga Library Services       Aminet Gold                 $ 19.95
  610 North Alma School Road               subscriptions   $ 59.95 (4 CDs)
  Suite 18
  Chandler, AZ 85224-3687      Shipping anywhere           $  3.95
  U.S.A.                             Federal Express (USA) $ 12.95

  Voice/Fax [phone]

  Pay via cash, check, money order or credit card (VISA, MasterCard).
  Checks/money orders payable to 'Amiga Library Services' and in US $.
  Credit card orders must include card number, expiration date, and
  full name on card. Subscriptions don't include shipping. Dealer
  inquiries welcome.



- Worldwide

  You can order the Aminet CD from any bookstore worldwide. Please state
  the appropriate ISBN numbers with your order:

  Aminet Gold     ISBN 3-86084-236-6
  Aminet Share    ISBN 3-86084-237-4

  Prices may vary, ask your local dealer for more information.


3. What is Aminet?
------------------

Aminet is a library where software authors can place their freely
distributable programs for others to download.  The backbone of Aminet
consists of about 15 computers all over the world that are linked to
Internet, a computer network that connects most universities and many
businesses in the world. Many other places, such as 50 BBSes, keep
frequently updated copies of Aminet.

Aminet is moderated. Whatever gets uploaded has to be approved before
it is made available to the public. However there is no censorship;
the only conditions for inclusion in the library are that every file
uploaded has a description file in the correct format, and the archive
itself is okay and virus free.

What is unique about Aminet is that large amounts of data are made
available to a wide audience within a very short time. If a programmer
uploads his latest release to Aminet, he can expect that it will have
been downloaded and tested by one thousand people within a week.  If
he finds a bug in his program, he can distribute an update to the
whole world within twenty four hours. In that respect, freely
distributable software works far better than commercial software.


4. What's on this CD?
---------------------

This CDROM contains business and database applications, developer's
tools and source code, hardware information, games of all kinds,
utilities for managing disks, souping up the Workbench, archiving and
dearchiving files, and many more, text editors, graphics viewers,
editors, and pictures, music editors and players, and much much more.
Because of the immense size of Aminet (at press time it had grown to
over 1.5 Gigabytes of compressed files!) a selection had to be made:
First, things uploaded after the release of Aminet CD 2 were included.
Next, we selected 300 most downloaded files among the ones that weren't
already on the CD, and finally we filled up the CD with stuff that
had to be omitted from Aminet CD 2 because of lack of space.


5. How do I access the CD?
--------------------------

- From the Workbench

  The first thing you will want to do is browse the contents of the CD.
  To do so, just double click the AmigaGuide document 'Index' at the
  top level of the CD. You will be presented with a list of directories.
  Pick one by clicking on it, and you'll be seeing the complete file
  list of all directories below the one you chose. Now you can either
  view the short .readme file of the entries you see by clicking on the
  description. If you click the archive name, the file will either be
  viewed (if from docs/ or pix/), played (if from mods/) or unpacked
  to RAM:. Use the Tools/TempDir utility to pick the directory where
  files should be unpacked to.

  After you've become familiar with the contents of the CD, you will
  often want to search for a specific keyword in the contents of the
  CD. Just double click the 'Find' icon on the top level of the CD,
  enter the case insensitive sub string you want to look for, and you
  will be presented with a list of files that match your sub string
  anywhere on their line. If there is a specific index file from Docs/
  you want to search, single-click your index and then shift-doubleclick
  the find program. Hint: You can use the 'Find' program to browse
  more quickly and using less memory if you search for pix/trace, for
  example (this will show the according directory).

  If you drag the directory Docs/SearchKit Drawer anywhere onto your hard
  disk, you can browse and do searches without having the CD in your drive.


- From the CLI/Shell

  To get familiar with the contents of the CD, I recommend having a
  look at the file Aminet/INDEX which contains a complete list of
  all files on the CD in plain ASCII. If you find a file you are
  interested in, for example, docs/mags/cd32bits-0694.lha , then
  execute the following commands:
    cd Aminet/docs/mags
    lha e cd32bits-0694.lha ram:
  to unpack the contents of that archive to RAM. If you don't have
  the archiver LhA yet, you can obtain it from the Tools/ directory
  on the CD.

  To locate all files that contain foo anywhere in their file name,
  directory name or description, execute the command
    search NONUM Aminet/INDEX foo
  or just use the Aminet find tool:
    find foo
  which will output an AmigaGuide document.

  For further information read the documents on Find and Inspect in
  Tools/Docs/.

  Note that a wide version of the index files that includes an age
  column (age in days since press time) can be found in the directory
  info/index/.


6. What file formats are used?
------------------------------

There are several types of files on Aminet.  Most of them are archive
files, which means that they are compressed and contain several files
in one compact group.  Here's a list of the more common archive files
you'll find on this disc:

  Filename Suffix      Type               Program needed to access

     .lha              Archived           lha
     .lzh              Archived           lha
     .dms              Diskette           dms
     .Z                Compressed         uncompress
     .jpg              Image              viewtek
     .gif              Image              viewtek
     .txt              Text               muchmore
     .run              Self-extracting    (ready to run)
     .exe              Executable         (ready to run)

All of these programs are found uncompressed in the directory :Tools.
It is recommended that you copy them somewhere in your executable path,
e.g.  into the Tools or C:  directory of your Workbench.  Please read the
documentation for the programs in the :Tools directory; complete
distributions can be found in the appropriate directories of the cdrom
(usually Aminet/util/pack).


7. Where do I access Aminet?
----------------------------

If you would like to get updated more often than is possible with a
quarterly CDROM, you have several possibilities.  By far the best way
is getting yourself connected to the Internet.  Several commercial
networks allow access to the Internet, e.g. BIX and Compuserve in the
USA. Some specialized companies (this is not an endorsement, just
an information):

  USA         Netcom  Voice 1.408.554.UNIX
              Portal  Voice 1.408.973.9111  Modem 1.408.973.8091
  GERMANY     EUnet   Voice +49.231.972.00  Fax [phone]
  SWITZERLAND EUnet   Voice +41.1.291.45.80 Fax [phone]

Once you have gotten Internet access you can use the following methods
to access the latest Aminet files:

- Mirrors. The normal way to access Aminet is by FTP, which comes
  with UNIX (program name is ftp). You can use any of the below
  sites. Most keep only recent files, but ftp.wustl.edu,
  ftp.cdrom.com, ftp.doc.ic.ac.uk and ftp.luth.se are complete.

  USA (MO)     ftp.wustl.edu         128.252.135.4   pub/aminet/
  USA (CA)     ftp.cdrom.com         192.153.46.2    pub/aminet/
  USA (TX)     ftp.etsu.edu          192.43.199.20   pub/aminet/
  Scandinavia  ftp.luth.se           130.240.18.2    pub/aminet/
  Switzerland  ftp.eunet.ch          146.228.10.16   pub/aminet/
  Switzerland  litamiga.epfl.ch      128.178.151.32  pub/aminet/ (*)
  Germany      ftp.uni-paderborn.de  131.234.2.32    pub/aminet/
  Germany      ftp.uni-erlangen.de   131.188.3.2     pub/aminet/
  Germany      ftp.uni-bielefeld.de  129.70.4.55     pub/aminet/
  Germany      ftp.uni-oldenburg.de  134.106.40.9    pub/aminet/
  Germany      ftp.uni-kl.de         131.246.9.95    pub/aminet/
  Germany      ftp.uni-stuttgart.de  129.96.8.13     cd aminet
  Germany      ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de   130.149.17.7    pub/aminet/
  UK           ftp.doc.ic.ac.uk      146.169.2.1     pub/aminet/

   (*) closed 6:30am to 4pm weekdays

- ADT. This is a front end for FTP that allows easy access to Aminet. Get
  it from misc/unix/ and compile it on your UNIX box.

- FSP. Aminet Files can be downloaded from the FSP site ftp.luth.se at
  port 6969 and from disun3.epfl.ch port 9999. ftp.wustl.edu and
  ftp.doc.ic.ac.uk have FSP on port 21, but can't be reached from
  everywhere (just try). Uploads are accepted at wustl and luth.

- Telnet. ftp.doc.ic.ac.uk strikes again. You can telnet to 146.169.2.1
  and log in as 'sources', which gives you a UNIX account where you can
  download the files on src using commands like 'sz' and 'kermit', or
  just browse around.

- NFS. The only Aminet site that allows NFS mounting of the archives is
  ftp.wustl.edu. FTP there and read the details in /README.NFS

- IRC. On Internet Relay Chat, you can talk to various server robots like
  Mama, LitBot and MerBot, to do queries and retrievals. Find out more
  about them using '/msg mama help', for example.

- Finger. To find out what's been uploaded to Aminet within the last
  week, enter 'finger [e-mail]'.

- Gopher. Gopher is specially supported by several Aminet sites. Just
  type 'gopher <sitename>' or 'gopher -p <startpoint> <sitename>'.

  USA (MO)    ftp.wustl.edu        1/pub/aminet/info/goph
  USA (TX)    ftp.etsu.edu         1/AmigaArchives/Aminet
  SWITZERLAND ftp.eunet.ch         1/pub/aminet/info/goph
  GERMANY     ftp.uni-paderborn.de 1/Service/FTP/Direct/ftp-server/aminet
  UK          ftp.doc.ic.ac.uk     1/pub/aminet/info/goph


If you don't have full internet access, you can try one of the following
methods to get access:

- Mailserver. The Aminet site src.doc.ic.ac.uk has an email server that
  sends out uuencoded binaries. Send a message with HELP in the body
  to [e-mail]. You can also use [e-mail] to
  retrieve files from any Aminet site, but please use an American one
  to save bandwidth. Send HELP there for information, too. Germans try
  [e-mail] .
  Also, the RECENT and CHARTS files are available from an automatic
  e-mail server.  Send mail to [e-mail] with the single
  word "help" (no quotes) in the body to find out how to use the server.

- Modem. The following BBSes carry up-to-date Aminet files. Most have
  more phone numbers than we can mention here, call to see a list of
  the others. List sorted by phone number.

  Country     Name        FIDO         Phone            ISDN
  -------     ----        ----         -----            ----
  USA (OR)    CryoCafe                 ([phone]
  Canada      Intuition                ([phone]
  France      Ramses      2:320/104    ([phone]
  Switzerland Amiga Micro 2:301/819    ([phone]   ([phone]
  Switzerland Helvetica   2:301/723    ([phone]   ([phone]
  Switzerland Dolphins                 ([phone]   ([phone]
  Switzerland AmiCall     2:301/722    ([phone]
  Switzerland Turicum                  ([phone]   ([phone]
  Switzerland Dive-Inn    2:301/325    ([phone]  ([phone]
  Switzerland Alphanet                 ([phone]
  Switzerland Amiga Magic 2:301/707    ([phone]  ([phone]
  Germany     CBFC                     ([phone]
  Germany     T.O.M.                   ([phone]
  Germany     SMACHINE                 ([phone] ([phone]
  Germany     DELVINOR                 ([phone]
  Germany     DELVINOR                 ([phone]
  Germany     RODERICK                 ([phone] ([phone]
  Germany     DEBUWI                   ([phone]
  Germany     DARKNESS                 ([phone]   ([phone]
  Germany     CBONN                    ([phone]
  Germany     FANTASIE                 ([phone]
  Germany     STINGRAY                 ([phone]   ([phone]
  Germany     ASBM                     ([phone]
  Germany     Amiga Mailbx             ([phone]
  Germany     TERM                     ([phone]  ([phone]
  Germany     QUICK                    ([phone]
  Germany     FLIGHT                   ([phone]  ([phone]
  Germany     NOLIMITS                 ([phone] ([phone]
  Germany     SUNBURN                  ([phone]  ([phone]
  Germany     MANIP                    ([phone]
  Germany     DELBOX                   ([phone]  ([phone]
  Germany     MULTICOM                 ([phone]  ([phone]
  Germany     BLACK-Z                  ([phone]  ([phone]
  Germany     SLTO                     ([phone]
  Germany     TECMANIA                 ([phone]  ([phone]
  Germany     RUDISBOX                 ([phone]  ([phone]
  Germany     HIT                      ([phone]  ([phone]
  Germany     VYPER                    ([phone]
  Germany     GROENLD                  ([phone]
  Germany     TITAN                    ([phone]
  Germany     OUTWORLD                 ([phone]  ([phone]
  Germany     OUTSIDE                  ([phone]
  Germany     BRAINWAV    2:246/2006.0 ([phone]  ([phone]
  Germany     UPLINK      2:246/2320   ([phone]
  Germany     FAIRYTALE   2:246/2300   ([phone]  ([phone]
  Germany     LSD                      ([phone]
  Germany     INCUBUS                  ([phone]
  Germany     CANDYS                   ---              ([phone]

- Anonymous UUCP. In Germany, you can access the Aminet files at the
  phone numbers of Brainwave BBS (see above) using the following entry.
  Download the file "Aminet:INFO" for more information.
  anarchy Any SER 38400 ATD<Phone> BBS. ..\c ogin: uanon sword: uanon

- FIDO. If you want to file-request Aminet files, you can do so by
  requesting the file INFO from 2:246/2006.0. The BBSes which have
  a FIDO node number mentioned above allow file requests.

- Mailing lists. If you want to get the list of new uploads mailed every
  week, send a mail with 'SUBSCRIBE aminet-weekly [e-mail]' in the
  body to [e-mail] or if you want daily updates, just use
  'SUBSCRIBE aminet-daily' instead. Replace [e-mail] with your email
  address, of course. Keep the welcome mail in case you forget how to
  unsubscribe...

- Usenet. A list of recent uploads is posted every week to the newsgroups
  comp.sys.amiga.misc and de.comp.sys.amiga.archive.

- EZINFO. This is an internet BBS in Switzerland. Here you can download by
  Kermit or ZMODEM, but you need to be verified to become user. Modem dial
  01 251 20 02, then type 'call b050' to connect to EZINFO. Also try
  telnet kometh.ethz.ch and 'call b050' from internet.

- Aminet-on-disk. You can order single Aminet files (3 DM per disk)
  or per-directory subscriptions (2 DM per disk) from Martin Schulze,
  Parkstr. 14,  66806 Ensdorf, Germany.  Phone: ++49 (0) 6831 506171,
  email [e-mail] . Send 3 DM in stamps or $2 to get an
  index disk with instructions.


8. How to contribute?
---------------------

If you want to upload, please read Docs/Uploads and send your submission
to any of named Aminet locations.  If you want to submit by diskette,
send to Martin Schulze (see above) if you're in Europe or, if you're in
the US, Chris Mattingly, 7921 Pumpkin Ridge Road, Kernersville, NC
27284-7400.  Note that your disk will not normally be sent back.  Be
sure to write a .readme file for each submission. Please make sure your
upload is in the correct format, or it might not be included.


9. Who made this CD?
--------------------

The contents of this CD were selected, arranged and sorted by Urban
Müller, the administrator of Aminet.  All the support software is from
him, too.  You can reach him at [e-mail] or
[e-mail] if you have any questions.

Of course this CD would not have been possible without the help of
the countless people involved in the administration of Aminet, not
to mention the thousands of uploaders.  Special thanks we owe Matthias
Scheler, the co-moderator, Martin Schulze for beta-testing and Chris
Weber who helped with the access software.  Have a look at Docs/History
if you want to learn more about who did what.


10. Useful stuff
----------------

There is a very limited number of unpacked utilities on this CD in the
Tools/Useful directory. They are all related to accessing the files on
this CD, and you should think about installing them on your HD.

- AmiCDROM is an excellent CD-ROM file system. In the improbable case
  that your CD filesystem has problems with the Aminet CD, just use this
  one.

- Degrader can disables all the advanced features of accelerated Amigas,
  getting many hardware-bashing demos and games to run.

- ToolAlias can map one default tool name to another. This is useful if
  you can't change the default tool of a file but want to use a different
  viewer.

- TrashMaster creates an App-Icon on your Workbench where you can drag
  icons to delete them. Handy to clean up after an archive has been
  extracted to RAM:.


11. Disclaimer
--------------

All files on Aminet have been virus checked.  However, new viruses
that were unknown at the time the CD was made could still have
slipped through, so we cannot make any warranties.  Thus you should
run a virus checker on all programs extracted from the CD to be
absolutely safe.

Note that, although you have paid for the CD, you don't own all the
programs in it. Some of them are distributed as Shareware, which
means that you have to pay for its registration if you use it
regularly. Please support the concept of shareware; if a program is
worth using, it's also worth paying for.

amigaguide.library is Copyright Commodore Amiga Inc.
reqtools.library   is Copyright Nico Francois
All programs Copyright their authors except noted otherwise