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Updated for 15c release. Added pointer to the README file for site

initialization (especially useful when we excerpt this for announcements.)
Added note about the split version of the release.  Added note about the
bin/sample-wrapper shell script.
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......@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ responsibility for the consequences of any use of this software.
This is a general beta release, meaning that anyone can FTP it, but we won't be
very sympathetic about catastrophes resulting from your dependence on CMU CL.
After the bug reports die down, we will announce a full release, and will then
try to be sympathetic toward desperate users.
This release mostly fixes bugs in the previous release, and if all goes well,
we will announce a later default release of this system
The CMU Common Lisp project's goal is to develop a high quality public domain
system, so we want your bug reports, bug fixes and enhancements. However,
......@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ of CMU. We are looking for university and industrial affiliates to help us
with porting and maintenance for hardware and software that is not widely used
at CMU.
See "man cmucl" (man/cmucl.1) for other general information.
See "man cmucl" (man/man1/cmucl.1) for other general information.
Distribution:
......@@ -40,12 +40,18 @@ directory that is to be the root of the tree, then type:
uncompress <file.tar.Z | tar xf - .
The latest SunOS Sparc release is:
-rw-r--r-- 1 wlott 9330285 Nov 1 17:35 15b-sun4c_41.tar.Z
-rw-r--r-- 1 ram 9257951 Jan 23 17:42 15c-sun4c_41.tar.Z
The resulting tree is 23 megabytes.
The resulting tree is 23 megabytes. For installation directions, see the
section "site initialization" in README file at the root of the tree.
If poor network connections make it difficult to transfer a 10 meg file, the
release is also available split into five parts, with the suffix ".0" to ".4".
To extract from multiple files, use:
cat file.tar.Z.* | uncompress | tar xf - .
The release area also contains source distributions and other binary
distributions. A listing of the current contents of the release are is in
distributions. A listing of the current contents of the release area is in
release/FILES. Major release announcements will be made to comp.lang.lisp
until there is enough volume to warrant a comp.lang.lisp.cmu.
......@@ -64,7 +70,8 @@ Site initialization:
To run CMU CL, place bin/ in PATH and setenv CMUCLLIB to point to lib/. The
file lib/site-init.lisp contains site-specific initialization, such as setting
of the site name. Any site-specific initialization should be placed in this
file; this file can be compiled.
file; this file can be compiled. See bin/sample-wrapper for a shell script
template that sets up environment variables and then runs CMU CL.
TMPFS NOTE:
......@@ -89,16 +96,8 @@ packages are copyrighted, they may be freely distributed without any licensing
agreement or fee.
Also in /afs/cs/project/clisp/release:
-rw-r--r-- 1 ram 3257791 Oct 19 19:50 15b-sun4-source.tar.Z
Image of all ".lisp" source files used to build version 15b for SPARC
machines. Probably more interesting to most people than the RCS
distribution.
-rw-r--r-- 1 ram 7267593 Oct 16 16:42 10-16-91-cmucl-master.tar.Z
The project/clisp/rcs subtree: the RCS source (,v) files for all of
CMU CL.
-rw-r--r-- 1 ram 3619669 Jan 23 17:24 15c-source.tar.Z
Image of all ".lisp" source files used to build version 15c.
Totally machine-independent compiler code:
/afs/cs/project/clisp/src/alpha/compiler/*.lisp
......@@ -128,4 +127,5 @@ the compiler description.
See hackers/ram/scribe/internals/architecture.tex (the System Architecture
chapter in the internals document) for more information on the source tree
organization.
organization. Note however that we have changed our RCS file locations since
that was written.
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