This is my (re-)port of Spice3f4 to Linux version 2 (I am not the same
person who ported it before).  It also wraps in the latest official
pre-3f5 patches from Berkeley I could find (found in
sp3f4.patch.tar.Z).  Support for the MFB interface using the Linux
termcap library and some various Linux features have been ported.

This was not done for the hell of it, but it seemed that something
broke due to some Linux/system/library changes, so I decided to try
porting it from scratch.  In fact, if you don't have any problems with
the previous port, your probably fine then.  However, if you do have
problems (e.g. exiting Spice leaves you in uppercase mode), or want
MFB for some reason, then try this.  It seems to work here.

Basically, I started out with sp3f4.kit.tar.Z.  Then, I applied the
most recent patches contained in sp3f4.patch.tar.Z and wrote new Linux
build files: "linux" and "os_linux.h" (some minor mods to the source
were also necessary, protected with linux conditionals).

Since the previous spice3f4.tar.gz port file was generally available,
there was no point in duplicating source, so I just diffed from the
spice3f4.tar.gz tree to freshly ported tree and edited or removed a
few of the diffs.  A few of the changes made in spice3f4.tar.gz have
been reverted to the distribution defaults, but one notable change is
that performing the install step will install the necessary files into
/usr/local/spice.  You'll need to add /usr/local/spice/bin to your
shell path.  See the file conf/linux to change the installation
location (this location gets hard-coded in the spice binaries).

This is a patched file of the original readme.Linux from
spice3f4.tar.gz, and the previous contents by Jeff@EE.Ryerson.Ca is
given below.  Just follow the below instructions, so you should be
able to safely do:

        ./util/build linux
        ./util/build linux install

You should then find the spice binaries and library files
in e.g. /usr/local/spice.  Example files and the man pages
are not installed, so you might want to copy them by hand.

Andrew Veliath (veliaa@rpi.edu)
January 25, 1997

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This is my port of Spice3f4 to Linux.  It required a few more changes
than the porting document indicated would be necessary, mostly to do
with supported/unsupported functions in Linux libc & libm.

I've tried to make these changes in as as portable a way as possible,
so it should build cleanly on other Unicies, however I've removed the 
MS-DOS support so the tarred and gziped source fits on one disk.

To build spice3, first have a look in the file readme, but you should
be able to just do...

./util/build linux
./util/build install linux

Note that there is a modifyer "gcc" you can try if you have trouble, but
it claims to work around some obscure bug in gcc that I'm positive got 
fixed eons ago.  To use it anyway, do ./util/build linux gcc.

I found this source through archie, (look for spice3f3.tar.Z, and then
patched it to 3f4 with patches from ic.berkeley.edu), I assume that the
ftp site I got it from has read thier license from Berkeley, which if
it's the same as the 3e2 license states that the holder can distribute 
copies free of charge provided it does not fall into hands unfriendly 
to the U.S.  So... I guess if that's you, please destroy all copies of this
you might have!

Jeff@EE.Ryerson.Ca