Path: senator-bedfellow

. Download the ".exe" files with your WWW

browser. These are auto-uncompressing files, just like on PCs (it uses

similar technology to PKZIP). Mark the file as executable (chmod +x),

then execute it to generate a .bff file. The .bff file can then be

installed using "smit install_latest". For more information

read the INSTALL.txt file on the server.

There are mirrors of this site at http://www.bull.de/ and

http://ftp.univie.ac.at/aix/.

The package explicitly referenced below are ones Ciaran consideres

"solid." That is, the binary has been "tested by lots of people."

Bull provides many other freeware packages as well. If you use the

service, be sure and thank Ciaran and Bull.

Below are some ftp sites that are supposed to have RS/6000 specific

software. I haven't verified all the entries.

US sites:

128.97.2.211




European sites:

128.214.6.100

130.92.11.3

130.149.4.50

129.104.3.60

129.69.8.13
The first one is dedicated to software running on AIX. It might not

always be the latest versions of the software, but it has been ported

to AIX (normally AIX version 3 only). Please use the European sites

very sparingly. They are primarily to serve people in Europe and most

of the software can be found in the US sites originally.
The remaining sites are simply ones that archie indicated contained

AIX related materials.

#IBM announcements, oem hardware

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Subject: 4.03: Why does "install"ing software I got from the net fail?

This answer was moved to section 2.22
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Subject: 4.04: GNU Emacs
A prebuilt installp (smit) installable package is available from

.
If you get a segmentation fault in GNU EMACS 19.* during hilit19 use,

you can set locale to C (export LC_ALL=C) to get around the AIX bug.

Version 18.57 of GNU Emacs started to have RS/6000 support. Use

s-aix3-2.h for AIX 3.2. Emacs is going through rapid changes recently.

Current release is 19.x.
Emacs will core-dump if it is stripped, so don't strip when you install

it. You can edit a copy of the Makefile in src replacing all 'install -s'

with /usr/ucb/install.
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Subject: 4.05: gcc/gdb
GNU C version 2.0 and later supports the RS/6000, and compiles straight

out of the box. You may, however, experience that compiling it requires

large amounts of paging space.
Compiling gcc and gdb on AIX 3.2 requires a patch to the 'as' assembler. Call

IBM software support and request patch for apar IX26107 (U409205).

gcc has undergone many changes lately and the current version is 2.7.x.

gdb is at 4.1x.

If your machine crashed when trying to run gdb 4.7, call software support

and request ptf U412815.

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Subject: 4.06: GNU Ghostscript
A prebuilt installp (smit) installable package is available from

.
The PostScript interpreter GNU Ghostscript Version 2.3 and later supports

the RS/6000 and can be found on various ftp sites. Current version is 2.6.1.

Compile time problems:

Compile idict.c and zstack.c _without_ optimization, add the following

to the Makefile:
idict.o: idict.c

$(CC) -c idict.c

zstack.o: zstack.c

$(CC) -c zstack.c

Run time problems:

Running ghostview-1.5 with ghostscript-2.6.1, I get

gs: Malformed ghostview color property.

Solution: replace buggy version of ghostscript-2.6.1 X11 driver

with at least 2.6.1pl4
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Subject:4.07 TeX - Document processing

From: "Patrick TJ McPhee"

TeX can be retrieved via ftp from the comprehensive TeX archive

network (CTAN). The principle sites are

ftp.tex.ac.uk (UK)

ftp.dante.de (Deutschland)

ftp.tug.org (USA)

but there are many mirrors. finger [e-mail] for a list.

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Subject: 4.08 Perl - Scripting language
A prebuilt installp (smit) installable package is available from