finstall(1M) finstall(1M)NAME finstall - install A/UX commercial software from floppy disks SYNOPSIS finstall DESCRIPTION finstall provides a standard and consistent method for ins- talling software from floppy disks onto an A/UX system. finstall displays a series of messages and prompts during the installation process. finstall prompts you for which floppy drive to use and for the directory in which to in- stall the software. You can use the default answer by pressing return. You can optionally specify certain default answers for finstall by creating a .finstallrc or /etc/finstallrc file before running finstall. finstall checks to make sure you have enough space on the installation directory to install the software. finstall also displays the list of files that will be installed be- fore actually installing them. finstall then prompts you one last time for permission to proceed with the installa- tion. You can stop the finstall procedure at anytime by giving it an interrupt, which is normally the CONTROL-C key. finstall creates, in a subdirectory of /etc/finstall.d, a list of the files that were installed; the list is placed into the vendorname/swname/vname/installedfiles file. For example, if you have installed the pqr software version 1.0 from the XYZ Company, finstall creates the list of files that were installed in XYZ/pqr/1.0/installedfiles in the directory /etc/finstall.d. FILES /usr/bin/finstall SEE ALSO newunix(1M), finstallrc(4). NOTES Users of the csh command shell will need to run the rehash command after installing new software so that the PATH vari- able is updated. April, 1990 1