What's on the Disc

Contents:
Introduction
Where Does Free Software End and UNIX Begin?
Shrink-Wrapped Software for UNIX
Quick Descriptions of What's on the Disc
Using the Power Tools tutorial
Don't Have a tutorial Drive?
Other Ways to Get the Software
Building Programs from Source Code
Software Support from RTR

Introduction

This tutorial comes with a companion tutorial that contains source code and binaries for the programs described in the tutorial.

There are two groups of files on the tutorial:

Freely available programs that we liked and wrote about in the tutorial. Most of these programs are written in C and are distributed in both source and binary form. We compiled the binaries for each of the platforms listed in article , and fully tested those for Red Hat Linux and Digital UNIX.
Scripts that we wrote or adapted ourselves, and wanted to share with our readers.

In selecting freely available software to put on the disc, we've tried to emphasize quality over quantity. Too many free software archives load you up with anything and everything they can find, without evaluating whether or not it's worthwhile. You're faced with the job of wading through everything to figure out whether it's worth using or not.

like this	Every program or script on the tutorial is at least mentioned somewhere in this tutorial. Near the first or most important of those mentions, it's got a disc icon in the margin, with the name of the program underneath. Our idea was that as you read about a program you like, you could simply install it (as described in article ) and have it added to your private stock of power tools. (You can also add them all at once, and just use them as you read about them!) This chapter is designed to give you some background information about the software:

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Every program or script on the tutorial is at least mentioned somewhere in this tutorial. Near the first or most important of those mentions, it's got a disc icon in the margin, with the name of the program underneath. Our idea was that as you read about a program you like, you could simply install it (as described in article ) and have it added to your private stock of power tools. (You can also add them all at once, and just use them as you read about them!) This chapter is designed to give you some background information about the software:

A quick summary of what's on the disc (article ).
What versions of UNIX the programs are already compiled for (article ).
A detailed description of the installation procedure (article ).
How to get a tutorial drive if you don't already have one (article ).
How to get the software from the online archive (files marked with a * in article , instructions in article ) and on alternate media.
How to build the software from the source code if you don't have one of the supported platforms (article ).
How to get software support or porting help (article ).

- TOR