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- Getami compiles with gcc, SAS/C 5.*, SAS/C 6.2 or higher, and
- (perhaps) Aztec C. It does not run if compiled with SAS/C 6.1. In all
- cases, you need version 2.0 or higher of the operating system.
-
- Getami requires the qsort routine. If you are using SAS/C 5.*, be
- warned that SAS's qsort is poorly written, requiring tremendous amounts
- of stack. (To run getami, you need a stack somewhere between 300000 and
- 350000 bytes!) I would therefore recommend that you use a different
- qsort, like the Berkeley one, available from uunet. I notified SAS
- about the problem, but they did not fix it in release 5.10b. It appears
- that they've fixed it in version 6. It is abysmally slow, however, so
- the Berkeley version is still recommended.
-
- Getami also requires getopt to parse its arguments. (I don't speak
- scanargs!) You can use any of the various versions floating around, like
- the GNU (requires alloca), or the Berkeley version.
-
- Finally, if you want to save pictures rendered with getami as IFF
- files, you will need a copy of Christian Weber's iff.library, available
- on one of the Fred Fish disks, and on aminet (util/libs/IFFLIB22.LHA).
- If you don't have this library, to compile getami define the symbol
- NOIFFLIB in CFLAGS.
-
- The current version of getami was developed using SAS/C and gcc. The
- first version of the program was developed using Aztec C, and an
- attempt has been made to ensure that the program compiles in all
- environments. However, as I do not have Aztec C, I cannot be absolutely
- certain about this claim. Let me know of any changes required to make
- getami compile using Aztec C.
-
- When compiled with SAS/C or gcc, getami calls a modified version of
- Thomas Landspurg's MultiPlot() assembly routine for fast drawing, taken
- from his ``SuperDark'' modular screen blanker package. If you have
- another C compiler that supports calling assembly routines with
- arguments in specific registers, you will have to add the appropriate
- declarations in getami.c.
-
- Report all bugs/enhancements to Kriton Kyrimis:
- kyrimis@theseas.ntua.gr (internet)
- or pythia!theseas!kriton!kyrimis (UUCP)
-