The software directory of this CD-ROM contains a large amount of software in both C source and ready-to-run binary forms (see About this CD-ROM for a brief overview of the major components and pointers to documentation). Platform-specific information is available for some operating systems:
The software/db directory contains the DB Software Package in C source form. The files within the db directory are in UNIX text format (newlines are marked by ASCII line feed characters only). See the Getting started ... notes for MS-DOS or for the Macintosh for information on converting these files to MS-DOS or Macintosh native text file format, if your C compiler or text editor cannot read UNIX text files properly.
Some additional software is provided for use with the MIMIC Database sample on this disk. Refer to the MIMIC software notes for information about this software, and for information about reading MIMIC Database records using your own software.
The software directory contains a few archive files with names ending in tar or tgz. The standard installation procedure reads and unpacks these archives automatically. If you wish to read them without using the standard installation procedure, the information below may be helpful.
The *.tar files in the software directory are archive files readable by the standard UNIX tar utility, or (under MS-DOS) by software/msdos/bin/tar.exe. To read a tar file, copy it to a writable directory and use the command
tar tfv FILE.tar
to read its contents without extracting them, or
tar xfv FILE.tar
to extract its contents.
The *.tgz files in the software directory are tar files that have been compressed by GNU gzip. To read a tgz file, first install gzip (portable sources are in software/gzip124.tar, and software/msdos/bin/gzip.exe is a precompiled version for MS-DOS). Decompress the file by
gzip -d FILE.tgz
This produces FILE.tar, which may be read as above.