[Newbies] finding messages after package install

[David T. Lewis]

On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 01:39:10PM +1000, ferriswheel wrote:
> 
> some packages open a workspace showing the contents of a 'readme' file 
> during or the end of an package install to explain the package 
> operations/use.
> 
> how does one find/access these files at a latter time.

Usually these are packages that are stored in SAR files ("Squeak Archive")
and that you download from SqueakMap. A SAR file is a zip format file
that contains the actual package that you are loading, along with
(usually) a readme.txt file and a changes.txt file. This are the
files that were opened when you installed the package from SqueakMap.

If you want to see the readme.txt and changes.txt files, you can
find them in the SAR archive. In Squeak, open a file list browser
and look for the package-cache directory in your Squeak home directory.
This directory contains copies of packages that you have downloaded
from Squeak.  Find the one you are interested in, highlight the file,
and click the "open zip" button.

Dave