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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.
-
- ------------
- 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 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).
-
- -------------
- GNU UTILITIES
- -------------
-
- * 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.
-
- --------------------
- 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 FRESHFISH CD-ROM
- ------------------------------------
-
- * See the file Information/Changes for a summary of changes since
- the last FreshFish CD-ROM.
-
- -Fred Fish ><>
-