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IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR THIS CD-ROM
(Updated 2-25-94)
This is the third CD-ROM in my "FreshFish" series. This file contains
important information that applies to this particular CD-ROM. For general
information about the Amiga Library CD-ROM's, information 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 files if you have not done so before.
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. This CD-ROM includes a partial database of the
CD-ROM contents and a program to find material based on keyword searches.
See the A-Kwic directory for more details. A new version of KingFisher is
also in the works.
This CD-ROM contains approximately 59 Mb of new material, 284 Mb of useful
tools including gcc 2.5.8, emacs 18.59, PasTeX, etc, and 293 Mb 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.
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INSTALLATION
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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 300 Mb 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 FFCD-Startup, which can be found in
FreshFish-Mar94:Useful/Sys/s/, from your S:User-Startup file, like this:
; These assigns search for the latest FreshFish CD-ROM available
; online at boot time and run it's startup sequence. They also
; assign FFCD to that CD-ROM, both to make it easier to get to
; from a CLI and as a flag that a CD-ROM has been found, so as
; to avoid lots of nested if statements. To support another
; future CD-ROM, simply clone a block and change the device and
; script names as appropriate.
; Look for December 1993 FreshFish CD-ROM
assign FFCD: exists >nil:
if warn
assign FreshFish-Dec93: exists >nil:
if not warn
echo "Running FreshFish-Dec93:Useful/s/FFCD-Startup..."
execute FreshFish-Dec93:Useful/s/FFCD-Startup
assign FFCD: FreshFish-Dec93:
endif
endif
; Look for October 1993 FreshFish CD-ROM
assign FFCD: exists >nil:
if warn
assign FFMCD01: exists >nil:
if not warn
echo "Running FFMCD01:Useful/s/FFCD-Startup..."
execute FFMCD01:Useful/s/FFCD-Startup
assign FFCD: FFMCD01:
endif
endif
; Look for March 1994 FreshFish CD-ROM. Note that the location
; of the startup script moved between Dec93 and Mar94.
assign FFCD: exists >nil:
if warn
assign FreshFish-Mar94: exists >nil:
if not warn
echo "Running FreshFish-Mar94:Useful/Sys/S/FFCD-Startup..."
execute FreshFish-Mar94:Useful/Sys/S/FFCD-Startup
assign FFCD: FreshFish-Mar94:
FFCD:Useful/sys/C/PowerSnap CX_POPUP=NO ANTS
endif
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).
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GNU UTILITIES
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* This CD-ROM contains ports of various GNU utilities that are in
various stages of stability. See 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.
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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.
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CHANGES SINCE LAST FRESHFISH CD-ROM
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* See the file Information/Changes for a summary of changes since
the last FreshFish CD-ROM.
-Fred Fish ><>