Speech Filing System
Installation of SFS
These instructions refer to SFS Version 3.3 for DOS, WIN32 and Unix environments. For SFS Version 4/Windows, an installation program is provided which handles all installation issues.
Contents 1. Binary distribution - DOS/DJGPP Version 1 2. Binary distribution - DOS/DJGPP Version 2 3. Binary distribution - WIN32 4. Binary distribution - SunOS 5. Source distribution - DOS 6. Source distribution - WIN32 7. Source distribution - Unix
1. Binary distribution - DOS/DJGPP Version 1 These are the installation instructions for the Binary distribution built with version 1 of the DJGPP port of the GNU C compiler to DOS. This version will work in non-DPMI environments (i.e. basic DOS, not under Windows). For Windows-95 users, the binary distribution built with version 2 of the compiler should be preferred. 1.1 You need to download the following from our site https://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/downloads/sfs msdos1/sfs330bn.zip demo/sfsdemo.zip Ensure you copy these in BINARY mode. 1.2 Create a directory, e.g. C:\SFS and unzip these: c:\> mkdir sfs c:\> cd sfs c:\sfs> pkunzip -d *.zip 1.3 Put the sfs\bin directory onto your path: c:\sfs> set PATH=c:\sfs\bin;%PATH% It is best to do this in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file. 1.4 Create an environment variable, SFSBASE, pointing to the SFS base directory: c:\sfs> set SFSBASE=c:\sfs It is best to do this in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file 1.5 If your display screen is standard VGA or is VESA compatible, you can use the standard SuperVGA driver supplied with the run-time support program GO32.EXE (part of the DJGPP environment). If your screen is not VESA compatible, you need to find and install other drivers from the GRX103 distribution that may be found in DJGPP version 1. Then you will need to setup a GO32 environment variable. See the instructions in the GRX distribution. 1.6 Set up environment variables for SFS to determine the graphics resolution, the printer type and the sound interface. Create an environment variable, GTERM, which sets the resolution of the display. For example: c:\sfs> set GTERM=vga-16 would set the resolution to standard VGA. Other possibilities are: vga-256 640x480x256 colours svga-16 800x600x16 colours svga-256 800x600x256 colours xvga-16 1024x768x16 colours xvga-256 1024x768x256 colours Create an environment variable, GPRINT, which specifies the printing device. Currently only postscript printers are supported: c:\sfs> set GPRINT=printer or c:\sfs> set GPRINT=LPT1 Create an environment variable, DAC, which specifies the replay device. The only generally available sound cards supported are SoundBlaster-8 and SoundBlaster-16: c:\sfs> set DAC=sb8 or c:\sfs> set DAC=sb16 Create an environment variable, ADC, which specifies the recording device. The only generally available sound card supported is the SoundBlaster-16: c:\sfs> set ADC=sb16 Other information about the SoundBlaster card is picked up from the BLASTER environment variable. It is best to set these variables in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file. 1.7 Create a temporary directory for GO32 to do memory paging, and create an environment variable which points to it: c:\sfs> mkdir tmp c:\sfs> set GO32TMP=c:\sfs\tmp 1.8 Test the distribution by running the SFSDEMO.BAT file in the demo subdirectory. 1.9 Set up the files bin\sfsman.bat and bin\sfsap.bat to perform SFS manual page search and SFS apropos search using tools such as find, grep, more, list, etc on your system. Examples may be found in man\sfsman.bat and man\sfsap.bat.
2. Binary distribution - DOS/DJGPP Version 2 These are the installation instructions for the Binary distribution built with version 2 of the DJGPP port of the GNU C compiler to DOS. This version will only work in DPMI environments (i.e. in a DOS box under Windows 3.1/95). Ensure that the DOS environment is supplied with as much extended (XMS) memory as possible in the Windows configuration. 2.1 You need the following from the site https://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/downloads/sfs msdos2/sfs330bn.zip demo/sfsdemo.zip Ensure you copy these in BINARY mode. 2.2 Create a directory, e.g. C:\SFS and unzip these: c:\sfs> pkunzip -d *.zip 2.3 Put the sfs\bin directory onto your path: c:\sfs> set PATH=c:\sfs\bin;%PATH% It is best to do this in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file. 2.4 Create an environment variable, SFSBASE, pointing to the SFS base directory: c:\sfs> set SFSBASE=c:\sfs It is best to do this in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file 2.5 If your display screen is standard VGA or is VESA compatible, you can use the standard SuperVGA driver supplied. Otherwise you can find other drivers in the GRX20 distribution that comes with DJGPP version 2. You will need to install these following the instructions in the GRX distribution. 2.6 Set up environment variables for SFS to determine the graphics resolution, the printer type and the sound interface. Create an environment variable, GTERM, which sets the resolution of the display. For example: c:\sfs> set GTERM=vga-16 would set the resolution to standard VGA. Other possibilities are: vga-256 640x480x256 colours svga-16 800x600x16 colours svga-256 800x600x256 colours xvga-16 1024x768x16 colours xvga-256 1024x768x256 colours Create an environment variable, GPRINT, which specifies the printing device. Currently only postscript printers are supported: c:\sfs> set GPRINT=LPT1 Create an environment variable, DAC, which specifies the replay device. The only generally available sound cards supported are SoundBlaster-8 and SoundBlaster-16: c:\sfs> set DAC=sb8 or c:\sfs> set DAC=sb16 Create an environment variable, ADC, which specifies the recording device. The only generally available sound card supported is the SoundBlaster-16: c:\sfs> set ADC=sb16 Other information about the SoundBlaster card is picked up from the BLASTER environment variable. It is best to set these variables in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file. 2.7 Create a temporary directory for memory paging, and create an environment variable which points to it. For example: c:\sfs> mkdir tmp c:\sfs> set TMPDIR=c:\sfs\tmp 2.8 Test the distribution by running the SFSDEMO.BAT file in the demo subdirectory. 2.9 Set up the files bin\sfsman.bat and bin\sfsap.bat to perform SFS manual page search and SFS apropos search using tools such as find, grep, more, list, etc on your system. Examples may be found in man\sfsman.bat and man\sfsap.bat.
3. Binary distribution - WIN32 These are the installation instructions for the Binary distribution built with Microsoft Visual C Vs 4. This version will only work in WIN32 environments (i.e. in a DOS box under Windows 95/98/NT). Note that the software is still mainly controlled from the console, and the use of the WIN32 API is only for graphics, audio and printing. The WIN32 version is not a Windows GUI version of SFS. 3.1 You need the following from the site https://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/downloads/sfs win32/sfs330bn.zip demo/sfsdemo.zip Ensure you copy these in BINARY mode. 3.2 Create a directory, e.g. C:\SFS and unzip these: c:\sfs> pkunzip -d *.zip 3.3 Put the sfs\bin directory onto your path: c:\sfs> set PATH=c:\sfs\bin;%PATH% It is best to do this in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file. 3.4 Create an environment variable, SFSBASE, pointing to the SFS base directory: c:\sfs> set SFSBASE=c:\sfs It is best to do this in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file 3.5 Set up environment variables for SFS to determine the graphics resolution, the printer type and the sound interface. Create an environment variable, GTERM, which sets the type of display. For the WIN32 version, this should be: c:\sfs> set GTERM=win32 To set the default window size for graphics, set the GSIZE environment variable to <width>x<height>, for example: c:\sfs> set GSIZE=500x400 Create an environment variable, GPRINT, which specifies the printing device. Both the WIN32 printing API and a direct postscript driver are provided. If you have a postscript printer, use: c:\sfs> set GPRINT=LPT1 Otherwise, use the WIN32 driver with: c:\sfs> set GPRINT=winprint Create an environment variable, DAC, which specifies the replay device. For the WIN32 version this can only be the WIN32 API multimedia interface: c:\sfs> set DAC=win32 Create an environment variable, ADC, which specifies the recording device. For the WIN32 version this can only be the WIN32 API multimedia interface: c:\sfs> set ADC=win32 It is best to set these variables in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file. 3.6 Test the distribution by running the SFSDEMO.BAT file in the demo subdirectory. 3.7 Set up the files bin\sfsman.bat and bin\sfsap.bat to perform SFS manual page search and SFS apropos search using tools such as find, grep, more, list, etc on your system. Examples may be found in man\sfsman.bat and man\sfsap.bat.
4. Binary distribution - SunOS These are the installation instructions for the Binary distribution built with the GNU C compiler for Sun SPARC machines running SunOS 4.1.x. 4.1 You need the following from the site https://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/downloads/sfs sunos/sfs330bn.tar.gz demo/sfsdemo.tar.gz Ensure you copy these in BINARY mode. 4.2 Create a directory, e.g. /app/sfs and unzip and detar these. For example: % mkdir /app/sfs % cd /app/sfs % gunzip -c ~/sfs330bn.tar.gz | tar xvf - % rm ~/sfs310bn.tar.gz % gunzip -c ~/sfsdemo.tar.gz | tar xvf - % rm ~/sfsdemo.tar.gz 4.3 Put the sfs/bin directory onto your path in your login command file. setenv PATH /app/sfs/bin:$PATH 4.4 Create an environment variable, SFSBASE, pointing to the SFS base directory: % setenv SFSBASE /app/sfs It is best to do this in your login command file. 4.5 Set up environment variables for SFS to determine the graphics device and the sound interface. Create an environment variable, GTERM, which sets the display type. For example: % setenv GTERM xterm This is suitable for the X11 windowing system. For other terminal types, refer to the documentation. Create an environment variable, DAC, which specifies the replay device. The only generally available replay systems supported are the Sun 8-bit and 16-bit audio devices: % setenv DAC sun8 or % setenv DAC sun16 Audio may also be piped into a script provided by you with the setting: % setenv DAC pipe The script $SFSBASE/bin/dacpipe is called with arguments: sample-rate (Hz), Sample-rate (kHz), Number of frames. Create an environment variable, ADC, which specifies the recording device. The only generally available recording system supported (in SFS 3.3) is the Sun 16-bit audio device: % setenv ADC sun16 Other settings for DAC and ADC may be found in the SFS documentation. 4.6 Create an environment variable, GPRINT, which specifies the printing device, and set up the shell script bin/postscript to direct output to your available printers. Currently only postscript printers are supported. By default, printed graphics are directed to the standard input of the shell script bin/postscript, with a single argument: '0'. The GPRINT variable can be used to select: 1. between different printers 2. between landscape and portrait format 3. between A4 and A5 sized presentation 4. between printed postscript/saved postscript and EPS This is performed in three stages: firstly GPRINT is set to a particular string, secondly the string is mapped to a number in the file data/digmap, thirdly the numeric parameter is passed to the script bin/postscript. The relevant section of the data/digmap file looks similar to this. The first letter means Postscript, the number is the numeric code, and the final string is the setting of the GPRINT variable. p 0 printer p 100 postscript p 0 ps-qms p 0 qms p 0 qms1 p 1 postport p 1 ps-qms-port p 1 qms1-port p 2 ps-hp p 2 hp1 p 3 ps-hp-port p 3 hp1-port p 100 stdout p 50 qms1-a5 p 52 hp1-a5 p 250 eps p 251 eps-port The numeric coding works like this: Even codes => landscape Odd codes => portrait Codes in 0-49 => A4 printed Codes in 50-99 => A5 printed Codes in 100-149 => A4 saved to file Codes in 150-199 => A5 saved to file Codes in 200-249 => A4 saved as EPS file Codes in 250-299 => A5 saved as EPS file The bin/postscript file may then switch the input stream to one of a number of printers, e.g.: case $1 in 0) lp -s -dqms1;; 1) lp -s -dqms1;; 2) lp -s -dhp1;; 3) lp -s -dhp1;; 4) lp -s -dqms2;; 5) lp -s -dqms2;; 100) cat >capture.ps;; *) lp;; esac Note the the A5 codes have 50 subtracted before being sent to the script. Create an environment variable, GPRINT, selecting your printer, for example: % setenv GPRINT hp1 4.6 Test the distribution by running the sfsdemo.sh file in the demo subdirectory. 4.7 Create files bin/sfsman and bin/sfsap to perform SFS manual page search and SFS apropos search using tools such as man, grep, more, less, etc on your system. Examples may be found in man/sfsman and man/sfsap.
5. Source distribution - DOS These instructions refer to installation of SFS sources prior to recompilation or new program development. These instructions refer to the DJGPP version 2 compiler only. Similar instructions would apply to version 1. 5.1 Install the DJGPP version 2 port of the GNU C compiler. Find your nearest centre for the SimTel achive and locate the SimTel/vendors/djgpp directory. You will need the following files: v2/djdev200.zip v2gnu/bnu252b.zip v2gnu/bsn124b.zip v2gnu/gcc272b.zip v2gnu/mak373b.zip v2gnu/txi360b.zip v2tk/grx20.zip Be sure to download and read the README.1ST file from this source. Install the DJGPP sources into their own directory: c:\> mkdir gnu c:\> cd gnu c:\gnu\> pkunzip -d \*.zip Put the GNU\BIN directory onto your path, and create an environment variable, DJGPP, to point to the general environment file: c:\gnu> set PATH=c:\gnu\bin;%PATH% c:\gnu> set DJGPP=c:\gnu\djgpp.env 5.2 Copy the GRX compatibility header files into the GRX include directory: c:\gnu> cd contrib\grx20\compat c:\gnu\contrib\grx20\compat> copy *.h ..\include 5.3 Obtain the following SFS source files from https://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/downloads/sfs msdos2/sfs330s1.zip msdos2/sfs330s2.zip demo/sfsdemo.zip 5.4 Create a directory to hold SFS and unzip the sources: c:\> mkdir sfs c:\> cd sfs c:\sfs> pkunzip -d sfs*.zip 5.5 Make directories to hold the executables and libraries: c:\sfs> mkdir bin c:\sfs> mkdir lib 5.6 Copy the support programs cp.exe and tee.exe from the SFS DOS directory to some directory on your path. For example: c:\sfs\dos> copy *.exe c:\dos 5.7 Rebuild the libraries and executables: c:\sfs> dosmake2 (DJGPP Version 1, would run dosmake1) 5.8 After compilation is complete, you may wish to include the SFS\INCLUDE directory in the C_INCLUDE_PATH setting inside DJGPP.ENV, and the SFS\LIB directory in the LIBRARY_PATH setting inside DJGPP.ENV. You should also put the SFS\BIN directory onto your PATH statement. 5.9 Set up environment variables for SFS to determine the graphics resolution, the printer type and the sound interface. See section 2.6. 5.10 Test the distribution by running the SFSDEMO.BAT file in the demo subdirectory. 5.11 Create files bin\sfsman.bat and bin\sfsap.bat to perform SFS manual page search and SFS apropos search using tools such as find, grep, more, list, etc on your system. Examples may be found in man\sfsman.bat and man\sfsap.bat.
6. Source distribution - WIN32 These instructions refer to installation of SFS sources prior to recompilation or new program development. These instructions refer to the Microsoft Visual C V4 compiler only. 6.1 Check that the Visual C compiler is installed correctly by compiling a test program. The environent variables INCLUDE and LIB should point to the appropriate Microsoft Development tools directories. 6.2 Obtain the following SFS source files from https://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/downloads/sfs win32/sfs330s1.zip win32/sfs330s2.zip demo/sfsdemo.zip 6.3 Create a directory to hold SFS and unzip the sources: c:\> mkdir sfs c:\> cd sfs c:\sfs> pkunzip -d sfs*.zip 6.4 Make directories to hold the executables and libraries: c:\sfs> mkdir bin c:\sfs> mkdir lib 6.5 Copy the support programs cp.exe and tee.exe from the SFS DOS directory to some directory on your path. For example: c:\sfs\dos> copy *.exe c:\dos 6.6 Rebuild the libraries and executables: c:\sfs> dosmake3 6.7 After compilation is complete, you may wish to include the SFS\INCLUDE directory in the INCLUDE path setting, and the SFS\LIB directory in the LIBRARY path. You should also put the SFS\BIN directory onto your PATH statement. 6.8 Set up environment variables for SFS to determine the graphics resolution, the printer type and the sound interface. See section 3.5 6.9 Test the distribution by running the SFSDEMO.BAT file in the demo subdirectory. 6.10 Create files bin\sfsman.bat and bin\sfsap.bat to perform SFS manual page search and SFS apropos search using tools such as find, grep, more, list, etc on your system. Examples may be found in man\sfsman.bat and man\sfsap.bat.
7. Source distribution - Unix These instructions refer to installation of SFS sources prior to recompilation or new program development on Unix systems. 7.1 Obtain the following SFS source files from https://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/downloads/sfs unix/sfs330s1.tar.gz unix/sfs330s2.tar.gz demo/sfsdemo.tar.gz 7.2 Unzip these into their own directory, e.g. /app/sfs, for example: % mkdir /app/sfs % cd /app/sfs % gunzip -c ~/sfs310s1.tar.gz | tar xvf - % gunzip -c ~/sfs310s2.tar.gz | tar xvf - % rm ~/sfs310s1.tar.gz % rm ~/sfs310s2.tar.gz % gunzip -c ~/sfsdemo.tar.gz | tar xvf - % rm ~/sfsdemo.tar.gz 7.3 Make a sfs/bin and a sfs/lib directory to store the executables and the libraries. % cd /app/sfs % mkdir bin lib 7.4 Put the sfs/bin directory onto your path in your login command file. % setenv PATH /app/sfs/bin:$PATH 7.5 Create an environment variable, SFSBASE, pointing to the SFS base directory: % setenv SFSBASE /app/sfs It is best to do this in your login command file. 7.6 Create a version of the SFS configuration file for your machine. A number of prototype files are available for you to edit. The configuration file may be found in include/SFSCONFG.h The following files may act as models: sfsconfg.sun SPARC-10/SunOs sfsconfg.sol SPARC-10/Solaris sfsconfg.hp Hewlett-Packard sfsconfg.lin Linux For a typical Unix installation you will need to set up: 1. machine type 2. definition of a 32-bit integer 3. byte ordering 4. need for 64/32-bit alignment problem fix (yes for RISC, no for x86 architectures) 5. SFS home directory 6. Support for X-Windows and postscript 7. Support for an audio input and output device 7.7 Create a top-level makefile suited to your machine. A number of model makefiles are supplied. The files makefile.sun - makefile for SunOS/gcc makefile.sol - makefile for Solaris/gcc makefile.lin - makefile for Linux/gcc For a typical Unix installation you will need to set up: 1. home directory 2. compiler name and flags 3. make program name and flags 4. libraries to support graphics devices selected 5. libraries to support sound devices selected 7.8 Make the libraries and executables: % cd /app/sfs % make -f yourmakefile 7.9 Extract the manual pages from the sources: % make -f yourmakefile manpages 7.10 Set up environment variables for SFS to determine the graphics device, the printer type and the sound interface. Also set up the shell scripts for printing and replay. See section 4.5. 7.11 Test the distribution by running the sfsdemo.sh file in the demo subdirectory. 7.12 Create files bin/sfsman and bin/sfsap to perform SFS manual page search and SFS apropos search using tools such as man, grep, more, less, etc on your system. Examples may be found in man/sfsman and man/sfsap.