SCO Skunkware 96 Release Notes

(table version)
Note: These release notes pertain to the SCO Skunkware 96 CD-ROM
For information on ordering this free CD, see info.html.

To Get Started

On an SCO OpenServer Release 5 system :

    # mount -r -f RCKRDG /dev/cd0 /mnt
    # /usr/bin/X11/netscape file:/mnt/index.html
If you do not have netscape installed, download a trial copy from http://athena.sco.com/drive/ , install NCSA Mosaic off of this CD (the custom installable media images are in ./inst/Mosaic), or use any browser that supports tables and open the URL file:/mnt/index.html (assuming you mounted the CD on /mnt).

If you do not have or want a graphical browser, you can install Lynx 2.5FM (a character browser) off of this CD. The custom installable media images are in ./inst/lynx.

If you've ignored the previous two paragraphs and your browser does not provide proper support for tables, then you should use the "non-table version" link at the top of any page that uses tables.

Unlike previous versions of SCO Skunkware, Skunkware 96 does not provide a set of binaries runnable from the mounted CD-ROM. Rather, we chose to fill up the CD with custom installable media images. What this means is that in order to take full advantage of SCO Skunkware 96, you'll need to utilize the SCO custom utility to install the Skunkware 96 packages.

All of the media images are located in their respective directories in /inst on the CD-ROM. To install a particular package, locate the directory (e.g. /mnt/inst/perl), as root run /etc/custom and choose to install from "media images". Finally, enter the pathname of the media images (e.g. /mnt/inst/perl) and choose to do a full install.

To install all of the SCO Skunkware 96 custom installable packages (with the sole exception of the GNU Dev Sys package inst/gds, use the media images in /inst/All (requires 80 Mb of free disk space in /opt which is typically on the root filesystem).

You must be running SCO OpenServer 5 to take advantage of these custom installable media images. SCO UnixWare users should look in the directory /UnixWare. SCO ODT 3 users should look in /TLS.

If, as root, you are running the X.Desktop, then you can configure your system to mount the SCO Skunkware 96 CD-ROM by double-clicking the System Administration folder -> Filesystems -> Filesystem Manager. Alternatively, at a root shell prompt, type "scoadmin f" to bring up the Filesystem Manager. Next select Mount -> Add Mount Configuration -> Local and enter /dev/cd0 for the device and a mount point. Change the "Can Users Mount" to Yes and uncheck the "At System Startup" mount. After completing this operation, you should be able to mount and unmount the SCO Skunkware 96 CD-ROM by typing "mnt " and "umnt " as any user.

NOTE TO SCO ODT 3.0 USERS :

The Rockridge extensions to the High-Sierra filesystem format are not supported under SCO ODT 3.0. In order to mount the SCO Skunkware 96 CD-ROM on an ODT 3.0 system, use the command :

    # mount -r -f HS,lower /dev/cd0 /mnt
All filenames will be mapped to lower case and truncated to a maximum of 8 characters with a 3 character suffix (i.e. 8.3 file naming as in MS-DOS). Although the ELF binary format and use of DLLs prevents execution on ODT 3.0 systems, you will still be able to read and copy files to your system (e.g. you may want to apply one or more of the Technical Level Supplements in the /TLS directory to your ODT 3.0 system).

On any other system, after mounting or otherwise making the High-Sierra Rockridge CD-ROM filesystem accessible, point your WWW browser to /index.html where indicates the UNIX directory or Windows drive representing the CD-ROM.

What is it ?

The software on this volume has been built primarily using the SCO OpenServer Development System Release 5. In most cases, we have built binaries intended for the SCO OpenServer Release 5 family of products, using ELF binaries and Dynamic Link Libraries. Some of the programs will run on earlier versions, but these have not been extensively tested. In almost all cases, source code is also provided, so you can rebuild for earlier SCO releases or other platforms.

This cdrom is built as a mountable filesystem, and may be mounted to view, use, or install. To mount the cdrom, use the mount(ADM) command with the mount point of your choice. For instance :

    # mount -r -f RCKRDG /dev/cd0 /mnt
Source code is provided in the /src directory. The packages appear as subdirectories under /src/Tools, /src/X11 and /src/Tcl. In some cases, source code is provided but no compiled binaries. The source distributions are in gzip-compressed tar format. In order to extract these, use the command :
    $ gzcat //src//.tar.gz | tar xf -
Where refers to the mount point of the CD-ROM, is the top-level source directory (Tcl, Tools, or X11), and is the package name (e.g. gzip-1.2.4).

If you do not have gzcat installed (part of the gzip package), you can install it off of the SCO Skunkware 96 CD via the command :

    # custom -p SCO:Gzip -i -z //Tools/gzip
In fact, SCO Skunkware 96 contains over 30 such custom installable packages. These are distributed as "media images" and reside in subirectories in the top-level directories Tools, Tcl and X11. For information on how to install these, see the file INSTALL.

Files intended for use on SCO UnixWare systems are contained in the /UnixWare directory. Here you'll find over 340 Megabytes of files including a snapshot of the FreeBird archives, Xanim 2.70.6.2 and a debug malloc.

Also contained in the cd-rom filesystem layout is the /TLS directory. The /TLS directory contains SCO Technical Library Supplements which you may find of interest. These are drawn from the SCO Support Online System, and are also accessible via anonymous ftp on the Internet from ftp.sco.com, or via web facilities at http://www.sco.com

We are interested in your general comments about this distribution and about development tools in general. Please direct to:

Dion L. Johnson II - The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. dionj@sco.com
SCO Product Manager - Development Systems and Advanced Hardware Strategy
400 Encinal St. Santa Cruz, CA 95061 FAX: 408-427-5417 Voice: 408-427-7565

and


Ronald Joe Record
Affiliation: SCO / VMI
Email: rr@ronrecord.com
WWW: http://skunkware.dev/skunkware/95/rr.html
Voice: (408) 427-7604 FAX: (408) 427-5417
USPS: c/o The Santa Cruz Operation, 400 Encinal St, Santa Cruz, CA 95061

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