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1.1     ! root        1: .ul
        !             2: .ce
        !             3: BITE RELEASE PACKAGE
        !             4: .sp
        !             5: The BITE release tape is divided into four  major  directories,
        !             6: doc,include,lib  and  src.  Doc  of course contains all currently
        !             7: available documentation. Include contains all of the header  (.h)
        !             8: files necessary to compile BITE, the special LSX floating point
        !             9: compiler, the file system interface (which  BITEX and BITEM  require)  and
        !            10: system  routines  required  under  the file system interface. Lib
        !            11: contains archive files  containing  all  of  the  object  modules
        !            12: necessary  to link a working version of BITE and BITEX. Where
        !            13: BITE is intended to run on a PDP11/70 or equivalent while BITEX
        !            14: and BITEM
        !            15: are  intended  to  run  on an LSI-11/03.  
        !            16: BITEX is for 11/03's with the IBV11-A general purpose instrument bus
        !            17: and associated instruments. To make room for the instrument dirvers,
        !            18: some of the math routines i.e. sin,cos,atn,tan log had to be 
        !            19: excluded from BITEX.
        !            20: BITEM on the other hand excludes the bus and instrument routines and
        !            21: includes a full math package.
        !            22: These exclusions and inclusions are controlled by two manifest constants,
        !            23: namely LSX and TEST. These constants are not mutually exclusive, that is
        !            24: LSX may be defined without TEST but TEST may not be defined without LSX.
        !            25: .sp
        !            26: Src contains five directories,
        !            27: each of which contains source code for all of  the  files
        !            28: contained  in  the  Lib archives. In addition to source code each
        !            29: directory under "src" contains one or more shell scripts intended
        !            30: to  build  a  new  archive or recompile individual modules within
        !            31: that particular source directory and link the new module with the
        !            32: existing  ones  in  the archives. In general the scripts to build
        !            33: new archives are called "build.sh" and the ones to recompile  individual
        !            34: modules  are  called  "compile.sh".  In  the "src/bite"
        !            35: directory there are separate "build" and  "compile"  scripts  for
        !            36: BITE,
        !            37: BITEX and
        !            38: BITEM.
        !            39: .sp
        !            40: BITE was developed by R. B. Drake and J.
        !            41: P. Hawkins of the Power Systems  laboratory  at  Whippany,  as  a
        !            42: "BASIC" like language for the purpose of providing an easy to use
        !            43: and easy to tailor language for non-programmer engineers  to  use
        !            44: in  developing test programs on automated test sets.  Much of the
        !            45: software in the file system  interface  and  the  floating  point
        !            46: pre-compiler  was obtained from Unix Support Group in Murray Hill
        !            47: and Ron Hardin of Columbus Labs. respectively. However,  we  have
        !            48: modified this software in many places to make it more compact and
        !            49: to fit our particular needs. Very little of  it  is  in  "as  received"
        !            50: condition.   Since, we are not primarily a software support
        !            51: group, we may not be able to respond to requests to fix bugs
        !            52: or  modify  this code unless in our opinion such changes would be
        !            53: of benefit to our own project.  However, we  are  very  happy  to
        !            54: share  what  we have and are most happy that our efforts may find
        !            55: applications other than the ones for which they  were  originally
        !            56: intended.
        !            57: .sp
        !            58: 
        !            59:        The tape supplied is created by the UNIX "cpio" command.
        !            60: To load the tape, create a directory where it is desired to
        !            61: place the software, mount the tape and issue:
        !            62: 
        !            63:        cpio -id < /dev/mt0
        !            64: 
        !            65:        where 0 is mag tape unit zero.
        !            66:                        R. B. Drake and J. P. Hawkins

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