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- IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THIS CD-ROM
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- 6/27/94
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- OVERVIEW
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- This is revision 1 of the April 1994 GoldFish (TM) CD-ROM, a 2 CD set
- containing the entire contents of the Fred Fish 1000 disk floppy library.
- 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. For
- information about what has changed between the initial production run and
- revision 1, see the file "Changes" in the Information directory.
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- Also sure to read the "LEGAL-NOTICE", "COPYRIGHT", "WARRANTY", and "SHARE-
- WARE" 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 on the
- first volume will be particularly useful to you.
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- CONTENTS OVERVIEW
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- The first volume of this 2 CD set contains floppy disks 1-1000 in archived
- form (5552 archives, 426 Mb), and disks 1-249 in unarchived form (210 Mb).
- For each archive there is a "product info" file that contains important
- information about the contents of the archive. For further details about
- the structure of a product info file, see the file "Product-Infos" in the
- "Information" directory. For details about how to use the product info
- files in a BBS/FTP environment, see the "BBS/README" file on the first
- volume.
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- The second volume of this 2 CD set contains floppy disks 249-1000 in
- unarchived form (649 Mb).
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- RECONSTRUCTING FLOPPY DISKS
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- The first volume of this 2 CD set contains a program called "PufferFish",
- which can be used to recreate verified copies of any of the 1000 floppy
- disks in the floppy library, from the archives included on volume one.
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- LOCATING MATERIAL
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- Included on volume one 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.
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- 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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- Many of 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 an lha 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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- USER FEEDBACK NEEDED
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- I am always interested in hearing about things that might make my CD-ROM's
- 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 ><>
-