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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 ><>
-