From 1183fd0d4fd797bd7c55fbc65c989b0303b9a103 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ram <ram>
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1992 09:28:20 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] 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.

---
 general-info/net-README.txt | 36 ++++++++++++++++++------------------
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/general-info/net-README.txt b/general-info/net-README.txt
index c0bd0ee37..1c0de2667 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.
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