COMMON PROBLEMS (Updated 2/27/94) CD-ROM DRIVER SOFTWARE ---------------------- I have tested a number of different CD-ROM driver packages and have found problems with most of them except for the Xetec driver, the Z3-Fastlane driver, the very latest ASIMware Innovations driver, and the latest AmiCDROM driver. Usually the problems involve opening or reading files that have international characters in their names, or have embedded semicolon characters. However don't panic, this typically involves only a couple dozen files out of the 40,000+ files on this CD-ROM. To see if your driver is capable of correctly reading every file on this CD-ROM, run the following test, which may take between 2 and 24 hours depending upon what software you are using, the speed of your drive, what controller card you have, what CD-ROM drive you have, etc, etc. Be sure that you have either run the CD startup sequence as described in README-FIRST or else have arranged for brik to be in your path and for ixemul.library to be found in your LIBS: directory. cd FreshFish-Mar94: stack 100000 brik -Cb ram:logfile The test should run with no output to either the screen or the logfile, as the case may be. If brik fails to find or correctly read any file on the CD-ROM, it will generate a line of output giving the file name and an appropriate error message. If you do get errors, I suggest sending the list of files that have problems to the supplier of your CD-ROM software, and inquire about an update. REPORTING PROBLEMS ------------------ If you have problems running some program on this disk, or find bugs in a program, you should report these problems to the author of the program, not to me. I likely will not be able to help you and dealing with such problem reports takes time away from other projects, like getting the next disk out. Also, I generally have no more additional contact information for authors than what is already provided on the CD-ROM, so please don't send reports to me asking me to "pass them on" to the author. About the only exception to this is problems with the GNU utilities. Problems that appear to be Amiga specific should be reported to me. Other problems, particularly if you can duplicate them on a UNIX system running the same version of the GNU software without any Amiga specific patches, should be reported to the FSF. In summary, please only report problems to me when it seems like I'm the most obvious person to deal with them. The address for reporting problems to me is: Amiga Library Services 610 N. Alma School Road, Suite 18 Chandler, AZ 85224-3687 U.S.A. You can also FAX them to me at (602) 917-0917. READING THIS CD-ROM ON OTHER SYSTEMS ------------------------------------ I have had mixed reports of success or problems with attempting to read this CD-ROM on other systems, such as UNIX systems or systems running MS-DOS. If you are using such systems and can try to read this CD-ROM on them, I would be interested in receiving back reports of your results. Note that positive reports like "everything was fine" are just as important as negative reports like "nothing worked". Otherwise the only time I hear about the results is when people have problems. The best way to report these results is to send me a FAX, describing your hardware and software configuration, any problems you encountered, and what if anything, you were able to do to overcome the problems. Thanks!