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- Installation Guide to
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- ASH
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- A ksh-like Shell for the Amiga
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- Version 1.0
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- (Copyright) 1989
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- Steve Koren
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- November 7, 1989
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- Installing Ash
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- This section descibes how to install Ash. It is vitally
- important that all the steps be performed. If they are not,
- Ash will not operate correctly.
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- 1) First, copy the .ashinit and .ashrc files to the 's:'
- directory. Ash needs these two files to start
- correctly, and they must be in the 's:' directory.
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- 2) Copy the ash binary itself to a location in your
- AmigaDos search path. You can be fairly sure the 'c:'
- directory is in your search path. If you have
- modified your path, there may be other potential
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- 3) Make sure that 't:' points to a fast device suitable
- for storing temporary files. A sub-directory on a ram
- disk is best. For example,
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- makedir ram:tmp
- assign t: ram:tmp
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- You will probably want to insert some commands like
- these into your startup-sequence, if they are not
- already there. Ash uses temporary files only when
- absolutely necessary, but some types of Ash commands
- will not function properly without them (see command
- subtitution, for example).
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- 4) Ash needs a stack size of at least 15000 bytes in
- order to run properly. You can manually set the stack
- size to 15000 bytes using the AmigaDos stack command
- before you run Ash, or you can insert 'stack 15000'
- into your startup sequence (recommended).
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- 5) The following files need to be copied to a location
- which is in your Ash search path (although not
- necessarily in your AmigaDos search path):
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- cmp
- head
- strings
- tail
- wc
- xd
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- You can create a directory called "sys:bin" which
- contains these commands. The supplied .ashrc file
- automatically adds this directory to the search path.
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- ASH Amiga Shell Page 2 Installation Guide
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- 6) This step is optional, but recommended. The default
- name for the ram disk is "RAM DISK:". The space will
- make some things difficult to do (but not impossible)
- in Ash. I recommend that you change the default name
- of the ram disk in your startup-sequence to something
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- relabel ram: RAM_DISK
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- The only difference is that the space has been
- replaced by an underscore, and it will make your life
- much easier.
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- 7) Lastly, you must have arp.library installed in your
- system in the LIBS: directory. If you are not sure
- how to do this, see the arp documentation. arp is
- available on most Amiga BBS systems.
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- ASH Amiga Shell Page 3 Installation Guide
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