Trim down excessively long DESCR files in ports i either own, or where

i'm somehow related to (hpscan, that is).

Requested by:	asmi (long ago)

5 files changed, 4 insertions, 336 deletions

diff --git a/emulators/pcemu/pkg-descr b/emulators/pcemu/pkg-descr
index 812ce717b029..eae8e8a30d16 100644
--- a/emulators/pcemu/pkg-descr
+++ b/emulators/pcemu/pkg-descr
@@ -5,23 +5,6 @@
 As the title suggests, this is a Unix/X windows program which is
 designed to emulate a standard 8086 based PC.
 
-In its current form it runs most text based programs. The programs I have
-tried and found to work are as follows:
-
-MSDOS 5.0                         MSDOS 6.2
-WordPerfect 5.1                   Borland C++ 2.0
-Turbo Debugger 2.51               Turbo Assembler 2.51
-BBCBasic 4.61                     MSDOS QBasic
-MSDOS GWBASIC                     Virtually all program that came with MSDOS 5
-Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy  PC Magazine's ANSI.COM
-SemWare's QEdit 2.1               Norton Utils 4.50 Advanced Edition
-Norton Utils 6.0                  Xtree Professional 1.1
-PowerMeter Utils                  Autoroute (ancient version)
-Minitab 8.0                       Microsoft Diagnostics
-
-This is all the programs I could lay my hands on which were text based
-and could run on an 8086
-
 The emulator runs at about 8-10MHz 80286 speed on a Sun SparcStation
 10/40 (without the -mviking flag) and at about 6MHz 8088 speed on a
 33MHz 80486 box running Linux.
@@ -34,205 +17,6 @@ release....
 The program rather hogs the cpu but unmapping the window (iconifying
 it) will put it to sleep.
 
-The most recent version of this program will always be in ftp.cs.bris.ac.uk
-currently in the directory /users/hedley
-
-INSTALLING THE EMULATOR
-
-Edit the Makefile to change the OPTIONS, CFLAGS and XROOT to be
-appropriate for your system (I am assuming you are using GNU GCC,
-although any ANSI C compiler should work just as well). Ensure you are
-using the best (speed) optimisations possible (e.g. -O2 -fomit-frame-poiner)
-
-Edit the file mytypes.h and ensure that the types for INT8, UINT8,
-INT16, UINT16 etc are correct. Hopefully nothing need be changed in
-this file, but you never can tell... I have assumed that 'char's are 8
-bit bytes, 'short's are 16 bit words and 'long's are 32 bit words. If
-your compiler treats these differently to the above then you will have
-to edit this header file.
-
-Type 'make' and go away and have a cup of tea! Compiling 'cpu.c' takes
-a while (and quite a bit of memory!).
-
-Get a floppy disk of the same size/type as you specified in the Makefile
-(i.e. if you chose -DBOOT720, then you'll need a 3.5" 720k disk). Install
-MSDOS on it. Copy the files 'config.sys', 'emufs.sys' and 'lredir.exe' from
-the 'programs' directory onto this floppy disk. Shove it in your Unix box
-and type cp /dev/fd0 DriveA This should create a 720k (or whatever) file
-which the emulator can boot from.  If you do not have access to a Unix box
-with a floppy disk on it, then you can use the supplied 'dumpdisk' program
-to create a disk image. All you need is access to a PC. Simply put in a
-bootable MSDOS disk into the drive and type dumpdisk A (or dumpdisk B if in
-drive B). The program will copy the entire disk to a file called
-'drivea'. You must then transfer it to your Unix box...
-
-You then need to convert the vga font (vga.bdf) into a font format
-your X server can understand (either SNF or PCF) using either
-'bdftosnf' or 'bdftopcf' and install the resulting font file somewhere
-where your X server can find it. Then type 'mkfontdir' to rebuild the
-fonts.dir file and then type 'xset fp rehash' to tell your X server
-about the new font. If you type 'xlsfonts' you should see 'vga' as one
-of the fonts listed. If not, then something has gone wrong. I may or
-may not be able to help - it depends on your local setup. The emulator
-will run without the font as it uses the standard 8x16 X11 font -
-although most programs which use the extended character set will look
-pretty terrible. A warning will be displayed if the correct VGA font
-cannot be found. If you are using openwindows, you will have to type
-'convertfont' and then 'bldfamily'
-
-You should now be in a position to run the emulator
-
-By default, the emulator requires the disk image called 'DriveA' to be in
-the current directory or else it will complain. If you don't like this,
-then you can change the file the emulator boots from by altering your
-.pcemurc file (see below) or by changing the default at compile time (by
-modifying the Makefile)
-
-Once run, the emulator should come up with the usual MSDOS banner and
-request the current date and time (which should already be
-correct). You can now run PC programs, mount Unix directories as
-drives etc. You will already have one drive redirection - drive C: is
-the Unix root directory. To mount further directories as drives, you
-must use the program 'lredir'. Consult the file 'lredir.readme' for
-instructions...
-
-                        The .pcemurc file
-
-At present this file allows a few things to be changed at run time. If this
-file is found (either in the current directory or in your home directory),
-then it is read and parsed and the values overwriting the equivalent
-compile time options. Currently the only options supported at present are:
-
-bootfile diskfile       
-
-where diskfile is the disk image you want to boot from (no quotes or
-anything are needed and the filename must not contain white spaces).
-
-boottype type
-
-where type is either 360, 720, 144 or 12. This tells the emulator the type
-of disk the disk image file represents (360k, 720k, 1.44MB, 1.2MB
-respectively).
-
-updatespeed n
-
-where n is an integer > 0
-This is the rate at which the screen memory gets checked for changes (and
-hence the update speed at which the screen gets updated for non-BIOS
-writes). n is measured in internal interrupt ticks of which there are ~72.8
-per second (depends on the resolution of the system timer).
-
-cursorspeed n
-
-where n is an integer
-This specifies how fast the cursor should flash. Flashing the cursor can
-take a fair amount of bandwidth and so on slow/heavily loaded networks it
-may be best to slow down the cursor flashing. Setting n to 0 or less will
-disable cursor flashing - the cursor will be permanently on.
-
-An example .pcemurc file can be found in this directory.
-
-If you have problems compiling or running the emulator, then please contact
-me giving details of what went wrong (along with your computer type
-etc).
-
-Architectures tested:
-
-Computer        OS              Comments
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-PC 486/33       Linux 0.99.14w  Runs quite well. A bit pointless though :)
-Sun 3/60        SunOS 4.1.x     Takes an age to compile and not really worth
-                                the effort...
-SparcStation 10 SunOS 4.1.3     Runs well. Takes > 20MB RAM to compile though
-HP 755/99       HPUX            Runs OK (>25MB RAM to compile...)
-Sun 4           Solaris 2.3     Runs OK
-RS6000          ???             Had a few problems getting it to compile.
-                                Getting there slowly though.
-SGI Indigo      IRIX 4.?.?      Doesn't work if compiled with optimisation
-                                using the standard compiler. Haven't tried
-                                it using gcc yet...
-
-As you can see this list is quite small. The main limiting factor is the range 
-of machines I have access to. If anyone else can get it running on other
-architectures then please contact me!
-
-Warning: This program is not secure! Do not make is suid or sgid anything
-unless you wish to compromise the security of your system!
-
-EMULATOR LIMITATIONS etc
-
-Some parts of the PC architecture are emulated better than others. The
-BIOS has been partly implemented - enough to get MSDOS to boot and to
-allow most programs to run. Anyhow, most decent programs bypass the
-BIOS for screen access. BIOS Disk calls for drive A have been mostly
-emulated, although formatting doesn't work.
-
-Some of the hardware has been emulated but not much. Timer interrupts
-are generated by the system but there is now way (at present) to
-reprogram the timer. The Programmable Interrupt Controller has been
-emulated in part to respond to the End Of Interrupt command and reads
-from and writes to the mask register should work OK.
-
-None of the VGA hardware has been emulated at present (apart from
-screen updating) although this will change in the near future. Mode
-changes must therefore be done through the BIOS.
-
-The keyboard has been mostly emulated. The program converts X11
-keysyms to raw PC scan codes and then generates an interrupt 9 as per
-usual. There is a BIOS routine which takes these scan codes and
-generates the correct BIOS ASCII/scan code pair. The keysyms used can
-be found in the module 'xstuff.c'. In the future these keysyms will be
-read in from a file at run time.
-
-THANKS
-
-Thanks go to the following:
-
-Andy Norman at HPLabs, Bristol (ange@hpl.hewlett-packard.co.uk) for the HP
-port.
-Dieter Becker (becker@med-in.uni-sb.de) for help with the Solaris port
-Klaas Esselink (esselin1@ksla.nl) for help with the RS6000 port
-
-Please report bugs/comments etc to me (hedley@cs.bris.ac.uk) and I'll
-do my best to sort them out (no guarantees though). After June 25th I
-will be leaving University and will not be able to check email very
-frequently - please be patient if you want a response - I will reply
-eventually.
-
-Have fun...
-
-David
-
-
-
-[FreeBSD port comments]
-
-I (joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de) have slightly extended the .pcemurc
-functionality, in order to improve the handling of international key-
-boards.  David's code hard-coded the keyboard mapping from XKeyStrings
-to PC scancodes.
-
-I've been adding a .pcemurc section that defines the reverse mapping
-from XKeyStrings to PC scancodes, so it's at the very least possible
-to remap the keyboard to the original US layout even for international
-versions.  The syntax for this rules is
-
-	`keymap' <scancode>`='<XKeyString>
-
-This is my personal .pcemurc file, just to illustrate the usage.
-
-bootfile /home/joerg/pcemu/DriveA
-boottype 720
-keymap 12=ß
-keymap 13='
-keymap 21=z
-keymap 26=]
-keymap 27=+
-keymap 39=\
-keymap 40=[
-keymap 41=^
-keymap 43=#
-keymap 44=y
-keymap 53=-
-keymap 86=<
+The author is:
 
+David Hedley, hedley@cs.bris.ac.uk
diff --git a/games/xmine/pkg-descr b/games/xmine/pkg-descr
index 78940a81b9a7..d6cf7084ea23 100644
--- a/games/xmine/pkg-descr
+++ b/games/xmine/pkg-descr
@@ -12,39 +12,9 @@ This version of xmine is based on Paul Falstad's version 1.0.3, as
 published in comp.sources.x. It has been heavily munged to work
 without OSF/Motif.
 
-Almost everything needed was already in the Athena Widget Set, with
-the exception of a Canvas Widget (or DrawingAreaWidget in Motif
-terms).  Hence i have included a copy of the Canvas Widget of the Free
-Widget Foundation, only slightly modified to take the #include's from
-the current directory. If anybody is unlucky with the GPL conditions
-applying to the FWF code, she is free to drop in own versions of a
-Canvas Widget (really not much of code).
-
-I originally intented to #ifdef Paul's version for use with the Athena
-Widget Set, but realized that this would have resulted in too much of
-spagghetti code. That's why i hacked a separate source out of it. I
-cleaned it up a bit, so it will compile now without complaints with
-the -Wall flag set under gcc.
-
 Since the game itself has some 3D look, linking against the famous
 Xaw3d library is highly recommended.
 
-
-ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
-=================
-
-For X11:
-	The X Consortium, MIT, DEC, ...
-
-For the original OSF/Motif version of xmine:
-	Paul Falstad (pf@z-code.com)
-
-For the three-D lookalike Athena Widget set:
-	Kaleb S. Keithley (kaleb@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov)
-
-For the Canvas Widget of the Free Widget Foundation:
-	Robert H. Forsman Jr.
-
 ---
 enjoy,
-	Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.sax.de>
+	Joerg Wunsch <joerg@FreeBSD.org>
diff --git a/games/xonix/pkg-descr b/games/xonix/pkg-descr
index 64f6cc740457..e883c1afce6f 100644
--- a/games/xonix/pkg-descr
+++ b/games/xonix/pkg-descr
@@ -1,17 +1,4 @@
-The  xonix  application  consists  of a playing area and a
-status display below.
-
-The status display shows the  current  values  for  level,
-filled  area  (in percent), number of players (lifes), and
-elapsed time.
-
-The playing area has several regions.   The  brown  region
-(initially  only  the  border) is ``filled region'', where
-the player can move, starting from the  top  left  corner.
-Beware  of  the bouncing yellow eater(s) that do also move
-across filled regions however, if they hit the  player,  a
-life  will go away.  The flyers can only bounce across the
-green (so-called empty) area in the middle.
+Xonix is an old action game.
 
 The purpose of the game is to move the player  across  the
 empty  region  (whereby it leaves his way in a brown color
@@ -29,11 +16,8 @@ Every level, there will be one flyer more.   Every  second
 level,  an additional player will be granted.  Every fifth
 level, an additional eater will be fired off.
 
-
-
 The  original xonix game has been seen somewhere on an old
 PC/XT clone.  This is  a  reimplementation  from  scratch,
 done by Torsten Schönitz  starting the project on a Macin-
 tosh.  The X11 support has been written  by   Jörg  Wunsch
 with the pleasant help by Alfredo Herrera Hernández.
-
diff --git a/graphics/hpscan/pkg-descr b/graphics/hpscan/pkg-descr
index 05263368771d..f8522a1390ad 100644
--- a/graphics/hpscan/pkg-descr
+++ b/graphics/hpscan/pkg-descr
@@ -8,11 +8,6 @@ like the following:
 # HP Scanner
 device pt0 at scbus?
 
-Re-configure, build, and install the new kernel.  On bootup you should
-seem something similar to this which shows your scanner is attached:
-(ncr0:5:0): "HP C2520A 3503" type 3 fixed SCSI 2
-pt0(ncr0:5:0): Processor 
-
 Next, you'll want to make a link from /dev/pt0 to /dev/scanner for the
 driver software.
 
@@ -22,43 +17,5 @@ driver software.
 At this point, you should be able to run the scanner program and see
 results.
 
-- Nate
-
-
-Original README follows:
----------------------------
 This software is copyright Richard Tobin 1994.  It may be freely
 redistributed provided the copyright notices are not removed.
-
-You can ftp this code from macbeth.cogsci.ed.ac.uk.
-
-This is (a very early version of) a SCSI driver for the HP ScanJet range
-of scanners and a corresponding graphical user interface.
-
-The HP scanners (or at least some of them) are SCSI devices, but do
-not implement the SCSI scanner interface.  Instead they act as SCSI
-processor devices.  They use the SCSI send and receive commands to
-transfer (hard as it is to believe) escape sequences.
-
-The file scsi.c implements the SCSI send and receive commands in user
-mode, using the *BSD "uk" (unknown device) driver.  The uk driver is
-somewhat flaky, rarely returning errors even if the device is switched
-off.  Error detection is therefore likely to be minimal.
-
-The file scanner.c provides a thin layer on top of scsi.c, and might
-decode error returns if there were any.
-
-The file scl.c implements many of the HP SCL (Scanner Control
-Language) commands.  This involves generating and parsing lots of
-escape sequences.
-
-The file gui.c provides a simple X interface to the scanner.  It
-allows you to preview the whole scan area, zoom in on the bit you're
-interested in, and scan it to a file.  So far it can only scan 24-bit
-colour, preview on a colour display, and produce ppm files.
-
-All of this has been hacked up in a hurry, so it's pretty minimal.  It
-has been tried only under FreeBSD 1.1 with a ScanJet IIcx connected to
-an Adaptec 1542CF.  I don't have much time to spend on it, so don't
-expect rapid improvements.  Please send bug-reports and improvements
-to R.Tobin@ed.ac.uk.
diff --git a/misc/team/pkg-descr b/misc/team/pkg-descr
index f5fade6e63a0..ff1cf0979d9d 100644
--- a/misc/team/pkg-descr
+++ b/misc/team/pkg-descr
@@ -1,10 +1,3 @@
-From: pcg@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi)
-Newsgroups: comp.sources.unix
-Subject: v27i195: team - portable multi-buffered tape streaming utility, Part01/01
-Date: 13 Jan 1994 13:24:40 -0800
-Approved: vixie@gw.home.vix.com
-Message-ID: <1.758496249.28141@gw.home.vix.com>
-
 Submitted-By: pcg@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi)
 Posting-Number: Volume 27, Issue 195
 Archive-Name: team/part01
@@ -21,24 +14,4 @@ take turns at reading from the former and writing to the latter; they
 synchronize by using a ring of pipes between them, where a "read-enable"
 and a "write-enable" token circulate.
 
-team is not just very portable, but also portable and efficient. It also
-has some bells & whistles, like command line options to specify the
-number of processes in a team, the block size for IO, and the volume
-size of the input or output media. It also optionally reports its
-progress.
-
-Previous versions of team have been circulating (e.g. via alt.sources)
-for several years; I have not found a bug for a long time, even if
-surely they will exist.
-
 The team source is GPL'ed, and it comes with no warranty.
-
-  Note: this program was developed entirely by the author in his own
-  time, using his own resources, on his machine, in the context of 
-  his own research activities. In no way has the University of Wales,
-  Aberystwyth contributed aided or abetted to this work, for which
-  they bear no responsibility whatsoever. I am grateful to UWA for the
-  ability to use their systems (as a paying customer) to post this work.
-
-	pcg@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi)
-