diff --git a/general-info/net-README.txt b/general-info/net-README.txt index c0bd0ee3744e14574000b9fe7bd76882b5a05fe8..1c0de2667b1b13dff500e7284fad7ad09c492d21 100644 --- a/general-info/net-README.txt +++ b/general-info/net-README.txt @@ -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.