VBOX

                 Copyright 1996,1997 Michael 'Ghandi' Herold


Presettings for a successfull compilation/installation of vbox:

- ncurses 1.9.9g (or higher),
- tcl 7.6b1 (or higher),
- kernel 2.0.30 with hisax 2.1 (or higher),
- isdn4linux with audio support enabled.

The above specified version numbers are matching the development environment
of vbox.


Extract the vbox archive using 'tar -xvzf vbox-x.y.z.tgz' and cd to its main
directory (x.y.z. must be replaced with the version number).

Before you start to compile you have to call './configure' to create a
Makefile, which matches your local environment. A './configure --help'
displays modifiable settings. Following options are relevant for vbox (the
default settings are specified in [] brackets):

--prefix=PREFIX		Path in which the vbox directory tree will be
--exec-prefix=EPREFIX	installed [/usr/local/vbox].

--sbindir=DIR		Directory for vbox specific programs, which will
			be launched by the super user only [EPREFIX/sbin].

--bindir=DIR		Directory for programs used by all vbox users
			[EPREFIX/bin].

--sysconfdir=DIR	Directory, which will contain the vbox configs. You
			can use the global isdn configuration directory if
			you want [PREFIX/etc].

--with-spooldir=DIR     Directory in which vbox users specific sub dirs will
			be placed. These sub dirs will contain individual
			vbox configs, recoreded and playable voice messages
			[/var/spool/vbox].

--with-logdir=DIR       Directory in which log files will be placed
			[/var/log/vbox].

--with-piddir=DIR       Directory, which contains the pids of the different
			vboxgetty daemons [/var/run].

--with-lockdir=DIR      This Directory contains the device locking files,
			which will be created by the vboxgettys [/var/lock].

--with-i4lconfdir=DIR	Directory, which contains the configuration files of
			the i4l package. The config of vbox could also be
			installed in this place (see --sysconfdir)
			[/etc/isdn].

--with-tcllib=LIB	Tcl library to use. Normaly, the configure script
			scans for tcl8.0, then tcl7.6 and last for tcl. If
			it can't find your tcl library you can use this
			option to specify the name of the library [tcl].

--with-tcldir=DIR	Tcl base directory to use. If configure can't find
			your tcl includes or the tcl library you can use this
			option to specify the base directory to search. The
			directory must contain the subdirectories 'include'
			and 'libs' [].


No other options than the above specified are used by the vbox package!


You could modify the Makefile after a successful call to './configure' to
your own liking, but the default settings should be sufficient.

You're able to start the compilation using 'make'. 'make install' will
create the neccessary sub dirs and install the executables and config.
No configuration file will be overwritten! If a old configuration file
exists, the new one is copied with the suffix '.new'.


Now you're ready to set up user specific configurations and voice messages.
For precise information about this topic see the manual. Please note that
the full documentation if available in german only!

Please read the manual carefully! There have been a number of changes since
version 2.0 of vbox. Your old config files are *not* compatibel and couldn't
therfore used any longer! Existing old voice messages must be converted to
the .au format, and afterwards converted to the new vbox format using
'autovbox'.


There's a mailing list available for support, discussions and suggestions
about vbox. To suscribe to the vbox mailing list, send an e-mail to:

majordomo@abadonna.mayn.de

with the line

subscribe vbox <youraddress>

in the message body (replace <youraddress> with your email address).

Postings to this list are mainly German, although English letters are
welcome and will be answered so good as I can ;-)