NEXTSTEP

Title: Where is libcs Located? 

Entry Number: 1421
Last Updated: 24 August 1994
Document Revision: 894A

Keywords: libcs

Question

I just installed NEXTSTEP Release 3 and discovered that the library libcs.a is missing.  What happened to it and where can I get it?

Answer

The libcs library has been removed from Release 3 (and beyond).  The libcs library was written at Carnegie Mellon University. It can be obtained, in source form, from the Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep FTP Server.  To obtain libcs you need access to the Internet. To retrieve the source via ftp, issue the following commands (in bold):

localhost> ftp ftp.stepwise.com
Name (ftp.stepwise.com:username): anonymous
331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password.
Password:
ftp> cd pub/Source/Libraries 
ftp> bin
ftp> get libcs.tar.gz
ftp> bye

If you have access to the World Wide Web, you can get the library by accessing the following URL:

ftp://ftp.stepwise.com/pub/Source/Libraries/libcs.tar.gz