
AUTHOR'S NOTES

  This perl script named 'rip' is a wrapper for the two programs
named 'cdparanoia' and 'bladeenc' which are freely available
on the web at their following respective URLs:

  http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/ 

  http://bladeenc.mp3.no

  The script 'rip' will not run if these two programs are
not installed and available on your PATH.
  Note, to find out what dirs are on your PATH, do the
following at a shell prompt:

  echo $PATH

  Your shell will only look for binaries to run in the dirs
that are mentioned by your PATH which are all the dirs in the
output of the above commmand.



HOW TO INSTALL

  Here we shall use the UNIX way of refering to one's home dir
as  ~  rather than $HOME or /home/greg or the like.


  To install rip, first untar and unzip the tarball (*.tar.gz) that
you have been supplied with, namely:
  
  tar -xzvf rip-0.65.tar.gz 


  Then, 'cd' into the dir that is created upon expansion of the tarball
	
  cd rip-0.65


  Lastly, simply cp the file to a bin on your PATH, example:

  cp rip ~/bin


  The command above will install rip in the bin dir of your home
directory. If you do not have a bin dir in you home dir, I 
highly recommend creating one there and storing binaries there.
This is a good organizational practice which is quite common.
Of course, you will have to make sure that ~/bin is on your PATH.

  If you have root access, you can do

  cp rip /bin

OR

  cp rip /usr/bin


HOW TO MODIFY YOUR PATH

  To add that bin dir to the PATH that your shell script looks through, 
add the following line to your start up script (which is probably the
file ~/.bashrc if you are using the bash shell):

  export PATH=$PATH:~/bin



HELP

  To get a help screen from rip do:

  rip -h  OR  rip --help


  That's all there is to it.
  Enjoy!


Greg Smethells
gsmethells@linuxfreak.com

