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- IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR THIS CD-ROM
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- (Updated 9-Sep-94)
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- OVERVIEW
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- This is the sixth CD-ROM in my "FreshFish" (TM) series. This file contains
- important information that applies to this particular CD-ROM, and points out
- other important files that you should read.
-
- For general information about the Amiga Library CD-ROM's, detailed informa-
- tion about the contents of this particular CD-ROM, and other important in-
- formation, 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. If you plan to use this CD-ROM in a BBS or
- anonymous FTP environment, the BBS/README file will be particularly useful
- to you.
-
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- CONTENTS OVERVIEW
- -----------------
-
- There is a total of 650 Mb of material on this CD-ROM, broken down as
- follows:
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- Size (Mb)
- ----
- 188 BBS ready material from this CD -- new submissions, GNU tools, etc.
- 187 Full GNU source code, original FSF archives, and diff files.
- 87 Ready-to-run new submissions and other material since last CD.
- 62 GNU binaries, libraries, runtime files, docs -- EMACS, C, C++, ADA.
- 48 Misc useful tools, libraries, documentation, and source code.
- 34 PasTeX binaries, fonts, and documentation.
- 27 Descriptions of contents of previous CD's and 1000 floppy disk lib.
- 7 Reviews of Amiga hardware, software, and other products.
- 6 Commodore include files, libs, and dev tools (V37-V40) from NDUK.
- 4 CD-ROM administration tools, documentation, search utils, etc.
-
- For further information about the contents, see the "QuickRef" and
- "Contents" files in the "BBS", "GNU", "New", and "Useful" directories.
-
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- LOCATING MATERIAL
- -----------------
-
- Included on this CD-ROM are two different programs for finding specific
- material, or types of material, that you may be looking for. The first
- program is "A-Kwic", which does keyword searches on a database that is built
- from the included product info files. A-Kwic can be found in the
- "Tools/A-Kwic" directory.
-
- The second program is a new version of "KingFisher", which is included in
- the "Tools/KingFisher" directory. This program also uses a database which
- is built from the included product info files.
-
- For general browsing of the CD, you can use DirWork (in Tools/DirWork).
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- 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 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 directly off
- the CD-ROM is for you to run a couple of the startup scripts on the CD-ROM;
- one to setup the GNU environment and one to setup the "Useful" environment.
- The file Useful/Sys/S/User-Startup-Example is an example of one way to do
- this that will find the latest available FreshFish CD at boot time, and
- run the appropriate startup script(s).
-
- Just copy the User-Startup-Example script to S:FFCD-Startup, and then add
- the indicated commands at the beginning of the User-Startup-Example file to
- your S:User-Startup file, and reboot. You have to reboot because it needs
- to run before the LoadWB command is run, so that the Workbench will know
- about the directories added to the command search path.
-
- If you want a more customized environment, you can look at what the
- GNU-Startup and Useful-Startup scripts are doing and use appropriate bits
- and pieces in your own S:User-Startup. Future disks may have a more
- sophisticated method of customizing the environment to allow things to run
- off the CD-ROM.
-
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- GNU UTILITIES
- -------------
-
- This CD-ROM contains ports of various GNU utilities. See GNU/README
- for further information about what is included.
-
- 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 built 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.
-
- *** 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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- 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 ><>
-