rwt@ohm.york.ac.uk (Richard Taylor) (03/22/91)
Is improv distributed free in the US ? Comments fon the net appear to indicate this. We have bought three 040's, but not a sign of the package...... Richard -- ****************************************************************** * Dr R W Taylor tel : (44) 904 432351 fax : 432335 * * Adaptive Systems Group email : rwt@uk.ac.york.ohm * * University of York, England *
isbell@ucscf.UCSC.EDU (Art Isbell) (03/29/91)
Since my posting about transferring Improv to my floppy-less Cube, several
people have asked how I did it.
I have a friend with an OD/floppy Cube, so I transferred the floppies to an
OD and sneakernetted the OD back to my Cube. However, I could have transferred
the contents of the floppies in one of 2 ways. I could have used the Installer
App to install the contents of the floppies on my OD and then copied the
installed files to my HD. Frankly, I didn't think of this method until I had
already used a straight copy to transfer the contents of the 3 Improv floppies
to 3 directories of files on my OD, ImprovDisk1, ImprovDisk2, and ImprovDisk3.
So the first method works fine but will not actually give you copies of the
floppies themselves. If having copies is important to you, using Install isn't
straightforward once copies of the 3 floppies are on your HD; Install reports
that all files can't be found.
1. Create a new directory, Improv.
2. Copy Install_Help.wn from ImprovDisk1/Improv.pkg to Improv.
3. Create a new subdirectory of Improv, Improv.pkg.
4. Copy from ImprovDisk1/Improv.pkg to Improv/Improv.pkg:
a. Improv.bom
b. Improv.info
c. Improv.sizes
d. Improv.tiff
e. Improv.tar.Z1 to Improv.tar.Z
5. Using Edit, copy, and paste or cat in a Unix shell, append to the end
of Improv.tar.Z, ImprovDisk2/Improv.pkg/Improv.tar.Z2 and then
ImprovDisk3/Improv.pkg/Improv.tar.Z3.
6. Follow the Improv installation instructions as if you were using
floppies.
I may have gotten some of the directory and file names slightly wrong, but
you'll get the idea when you see the floppy contents. You'll have to Open as
Folder the Improv.pkg directories in the File Viewer, but they'll look like
normal Unix directories if you prefer to work in a Unix shell.
Hope this helps.
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