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IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR THIS CD-ROM
(Updated 14-May-94)
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OVERVIEW
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This is the fourth CD-ROM in my "FreshFish" (TM) 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 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. 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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There is a total of 650 Mb of material on this CD-ROM, broken down as
follows:
Size (Mb)
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151 Full GNU source code for supplied GNU executables.
126 New ready-to-run material not included in floppy library.
86 Archived (BBS ready) GNU source, binaries, libs & includes.
82 Archived (BBS ready) new material not in floppy library.
46 GNU binaries, libraries, and AmigaGuide info files.
42 Miscellaneous useful tools, libraries, and examples.
33 PasTeX source, fonts, and binaries.
22 Ready-to-run contents of floppy disks 976-1000.
17 Descriptions of contents of previous CD-ROM's & floppies.
13 CD-ROM administration tools, documentation, etc.
11 Archived (BBS ready) contents of floppy disks 976-1000.
9 Archived (BBS ready) material from Mar/Apr FreshFish CD-ROM.
6 Reviews of Amiga hardware, software, and other products.
6 Commodore includes, libs, and developer tools (V37-V40).
For further information about the contents, see the "Contents" file in
the "Information" directory.
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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. A-Kwic can be found in the
"Tools/A-Kwic" directory.
The second program is a new beta 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.
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INSTALLATION
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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 add the contents of User-Startup-Example 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.
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GNU UTILITIES
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This CD-ROM contains ports of various GNU utilities. See GNU/README
for further information about what is included.
Because of the amount of time that has gone into creating the first
FrozenFish CD and the GoldFish (1000 floppy disk archive) CD-ROM's
during the last two months since the last FreshFish CD, we were not
able to make any improvements in the GNU support for this CD, relative
to the last FreshFish CD. Expect significant enhancements on the next
FreshFish CD.
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 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" (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).
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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.
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CHANGES SINCE LAST FRESHFISH CD-ROM
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See the file Information/Changes for a summary of changes since the last
FreshFish CD-ROM.
-Fred Fish ><>