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ftape-manual, ftape version 4.01, Copyright (C) 1998 Claus-Justus Heine

The `ftape-manual' package comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for
details see the file `COPYING'. This is free documentation for free
software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain
conditions; see the file `COPYING'.

This is the ftape-manual-4.01 package, for use with the ftape-4.x
floppy tape device driver for Linux. This package contains some
documentation for the device driver ftape.

NOTE:

This package alone does not suffice to use your floppy tape
streamer. You need the `ftape' device driver as well. See
`Downloading' below.

I know that this ftape manual is quite large. I suggest that you read
the "Quick installation" chapter, the chapter "Loading ftape" and
"Testing ftape". If this is already too much, then you should use the
"Concept Index" of the manual and search for keywords which address
your problem. When using the INFO or HTML version of the manual then
you can jump directly from the index to the section the index entry
points at.


Contents
========

1. Documentation contained in this package
2. Configuration options
3. Downloading

1. Documentation contained in this package
==========================================

                The Ftape Installation and Usage Guide

2. Configuration options
========================

Please refer to the file `INSTALL' in this directory for generic
installation instructions. This chapter simply lists the additional
options which are understood by the `configure' script in this
directory; if you never before have used GNU autoconf generated
configure scripts then you really should read the file `INSTALL'
first. `configure --help' will give you almost the same description as
given below. The defaults for each options are given in square
brackets. PREFIX refers to the installation prefix, i.e. the directory
into which's subdirectories this package will be installed (can be
tuned with `configure --prefix=PREFIX')

Formatting the documentation
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

  Pre-formatted documentation can be obtained from my web page (see
  below) in case you want to make hardcopies and can't format the
  documents yourself. If you want to make hardcopies then you need to
  use the `--enable-postscript' option. See below. The following
  extra-configuration options are available for this package:


  --with-faqhtmldir       where the FAQ html documentation should be
                          installed. [DATADIR/ftape-faq/html]

  --with-howtohtmldir     where the HOWTO html documentation should be
                          installed. [DATADIR/ftape-howto/html]

  --with-manualhtmldir    where the ftape-manual html documentation should
                          be installed. [DATADIR/ftape-manual/html]

  --with-manualsgmldir    where the ftape-manual sgml documentation should
                          be installed. [DATADIR/ftape-manual/sgml]

  --with-papersize        paper size to use, either a4 or letter [a4]

  --with-pslatex          use postscript fonts for LaTeX. This
                          requires the pslatex package. Only meaningful
                          for the SGML derived formatted documentation [yes]

  --enable-postscript     Create and install a Postscript version of
			  the manual as well. Have a good look at the
			  `--with-papersize' option. Pre-formatted
			  versions in either Letter or A4 format can
			  be downloaded from the ftape home page (see
			  below) [disabled]

  --with-info2html        info-to-html url to use for inforef macros in
                          TeXinfo source code.
                          [http://localhost/cgi-bin/info2html]

  --disable-localdocs     don't use locally installed versions of the
                          Ftape-FAQ and the Ftape-HOWTO in hyper-links.
                          [enabled]

  --enable-manualsgml-docs   install sgml derived documentation even when
                          the same format can be derived directly from
                          the TeXinfo source code (PS, HTML) [no]


Downloading
===========

Recent versions of the `ftape' driver and the related packages
mentioned above can be obtained from

                ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/tapes/

or from the ftape home page

                http://www-math.math.rwth-aachen.de/~LBFM/claus/ftape/

The ftape home page

                http://www-math.math.rwth-aachen.de/~LBFM/claus/ftape/

also contains some useful links to related software and documentation.


Claus-Justus Heine <heine@math1.rwth-aachen.de>, August 1998

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