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- IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THIS CD-ROM
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- 6/24/94
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- OVERVIEW
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- This is revision 1 of the April 1994 FrozenFish (TM) CD-ROM, the first
- CD-ROM in my FrozenFish 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
- "Changes" file details the changes in revision 1 of this CD.
-
- Also 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
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- This CD-ROM contains 6128 archives in BBS or FTP ready form, with individual
- descriptions of the contents of each archive, in the form of a "product
- info" file for each archive. For further details about the structure of a
- product info file, see the file Information/Product-Infos.
-
- There is a total of 649 Mb of material on this CD-ROM, broken down as
- follows:
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- Size
- (Mb) Archives
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- 426 5552 "Fish disks" 1-1000, archived on a per-submission basis.
- 83 126 GNU tools distribution in source and binary form.
- 12 91 New material submissions from Oct 93 FreshFish CD-ROM.
- 23 145 New material submissions from Dec 93 FreshFish CD-ROM.
- 9 50 New material submissions from Mar 94 FreshFish CD-ROM.
- 42 103 Preview of some material to be on May 94 FreshFish CD.
- 32 56 Useful tools, libraries, documentation, PasTeX, etc.
- 2 5 Commodore includes, libs, and developer tools (V37-40).
- 17 - Database of material included on this CD-ROM.
- 3 - Miscellaneous CD-ROM admin tools and documentation.
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- LOCATING MATERIAL
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- 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. The second program is a new beta
- version of "KingFisher", which is included under the "KingFisher" directory.
- This program also uses a database which is built from the included product
- info files.
-
- Eventually there will be databases that cover all of my previous CD-ROM's
- and the complete contents of the floppy library. These will be included on
- a future CD-ROM.
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- LHA ARCHIVES
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- Almost all the archives on this CD-ROM are in "lha format". The shareware
- version of lha is included in the :c directory of this CD-ROM, so all you
- have to do to unpack any archive is use a command of the form:
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- lha -mraxe x archive.lha
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- Please consider registering with the lha author, Stefan Boberg, for the
- latest version of lha, so he can continue to support this fine program.
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- GZIP COMPRESSED TAR ARCHIVES
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-
- A few archives here are in what is known as "compressed tar archive"
- format. These are archives that are made with "tar" and then compressed
- with the "gzip" compressor. Generally they are the original unchanged
- archives for GNU distributions, exactly as released by the Free Software
- Foundation. To unpack them, you can do:
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- gzip -d foo.tar.gz
- tar -xvf foo.tar
-
- or if you have a shell that supports pipes, you can avoid making the
- uncompressed tar archive (which might be quite large), and simply do:
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- gzip -d <foo.tar.gz | tar -xvf -
-
- Both gzip and tar are included in the ":C" directory on this CD-ROM.
- Both require the ixemul.library from ":LIBS" to be found in your LIBS:
- path. You should also set your stack value to some large value, like
- 50000 or higher.
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- USER FEEDBACK NEEDED
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-
- 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.
-
- -Fred Fish ><>
-