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- IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR THIS CD-ROM
-
- (Updated 4/19/95)
-
- ========
- OVERVIEW
- ========
-
- This is volume 9 in the "FreshFish" (TM) CD-ROM series. This file contains
- important information that applies to this particular CD-ROM, and points out
- other important files that you should read.
-
- Some interesting additions to note for this CD-ROM are ports of GNU Fortran,
- GNU octave, and UnixTeX. Also note that there are finally some new releases
- in the floppy library, and disks 1001-1060 are included in the BBS/fish
- directory on the second CD.
-
- 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 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.
-
- =================
- CONTENTS OVERVIEW
- =================
-
- This two-CD set contains a little over 1.1 Gb of data, divided roughly into
- the following sections:
-
- Size Area Description
- ------ ---- -----------
-
- 626 Mb BBS BBS ready material selected from the other
- sections of the CD, as well as from previous
- CD's, on a space available basis. Also includes
- full GNU source code, original baseline source,
- diff files, etc, all in archived form.
-
- 227 Mb Useful Misc useful tools, libraries, documentation,
- source code examples, hardware/software reviews,
- descriptions of previous CD's and floppies, etc.
-
- 94 Mb GNU Binaries, libraries, runtime files, and documentation
- for utilities in the GNU tree. Source is now located
- in the BBS tree.
-
- 142 Mb New Ready-to-run new submissions and other material
- received since the previous FreshFish CD.
-
- 49 Mb Tools CD-ROM administration tools, documentation,
- search utils, etc.
-
- For further information about the contents of this CD-ROM, see the
- "CONTENTS", "INDEX", and "LOCATE" files in the "BBS", "New", and
- "Useful" directories, and the "README" file in the GNU directory.
-
- =================
- 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)
- or the provided AmigaGuide files.
-
- ============
- 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.
-
- =============
- GNU UTILITIES
- =============
-
- This CD-ROM contains ports of various GNU utilities. See GNU/README
- for further information about what is included.
-
- We are 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" (400000 is what we 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 300-800 Kb). Work is in
- progress to include automatic stack growth code in gcc,
- so this requirement will hopefully disappear in a future
- release.
-
- ====================
- USER FEEDBACK NEEDED
- ====================
-
- We are always interested in hearing about things that might make this CD-ROM
- more useful for users. It is particularly important that we 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 us at (602) 491-0048, however please understand
- that we may not be able to respond to, or even acknowledge receipt of, every
- problem report and suggestion that arrives.
-