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IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR THIS CD-ROM
(Updated 1/31/95)
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OVERVIEW
========
This is volume 8 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.
After completing volume 7, we realized that we were rapidly running out of
room on a single CD. Since we have plans to greatly expand the amount of
material in the "GNU" and "Useful" portions of the FreshFish CD, as well as
continue to add more material to the "New" section, we decided to expand the
FreshFish CD's to a two-CD set. Although these two CD's contain over 1 Gb
total of material, with room to expand by several hundred megabytes, there
is also about 150 Mb of material in the BBS section from previous FreshFish
CD's, that can be eliminated if necessary from future CD's. This should
give us room to grow for at least another year or so.
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 1Gb of data, divided roughly into
the following sections:
Size Area Description
------ ---- -----------
460 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.
220 Mb Useful Misc useful tools, libraries, documentation,
source code examples, hardware/software reviews,
descriptions of previous CD's and floppies, etc.
193 Mb GNU Full GNU source code, original FSF archives,
diff files, binaries, libraries, runtime files,
documentation, etc.
115 Mb New Ready-to-run new submissions and other material
received since the previous FreshFish CD.
23 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", "GNU", "New", and
"Useful" directories.
=================
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.
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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" (100000 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 300Kb or more).
====================
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.
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CHANGES SINCE LAST FRESHFISH CD-ROM
===================================
See the file Information/Changes for a summary of other changes since the
last FreshFish CD-ROM.