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The ftape floppy tape driver
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This package was designed for ftape '98, eh. No: for use with the
ftape floppy tape device driver for Linux, where the latest version
if ftape-4.03. See The floppy tape device driver for Linux (info file ftape-4). Although some utilities may still work (at least partly)
with other tape device drivers, you probably don't want this package
unless you have a floppy tape installed, and are running the Linux OS.
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The GNU C compiler
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See The GNU C compiler (info file gcc). gcc is needed to compile
the programs, which are delivered as C source code. Although they
might compile with other ANSI C compilers as well, I didn't test
it. Moreover, this package is useful for Linux only, and all Linux
systems have gcc . So who cares ...
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perl
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The perl script interpreter is required by
`src/scripts/listtape.pl '. If you have automake
(See automake (info file automake)) installed, then you don't need to
worry: you have perl . Also, if you intend to rebuild the
HTML and/or SGML versions of the manual, then you need
perl . However, this package comes with pre-formatted
documentation.
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Tcl/Tk
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Tcl/Tk is a script language that implements a Motif like
look and feel GUI. The graphical front-end ftape-tool is written
in Tcl/Tk . See Ftape-tool. Tk version 4.0 or
better is required. Version 4.2 works best, later versions
aren't tested (i.e. I don't know whether Tk version 8.0
works or not ...)
Currently, the configure script will bail out if it doesn't find
the Tk interpreter wish . FIXME.
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Automake
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See Making Makefile.in's (info file automake).
automake is a convenient way to create a couple of standard
makefile targets. It interfaces nicely to the GNU auto-configuration
tool autoconf . automake is not needed to compile
the package. It's nice if you have it. If not, forget about it, unless
you want to take over maintenance of the ftape-tools package. In this
case, please contact Claus-Justus Heine.
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Autoconf
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See Create source code configuration scripts (info file autoconf).
autoconf is the GNU auto-configuration tool. autoconf is
not required to compile the ftape-tools package. It's nice if you
have it. If not, forget about it, unless you want to take over
maintenance of the ftape-tools package. In this case, please contact
Claus-Justus Heine.
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info2html
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A cgi script to automatically convert INFO documentation
into HTML is useful. However, the only advantage is that you can
follow some cross references in this manual more conveniently.
See Modifying the outlook of the documentation.
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