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| 2 | Getting GNU Software, 19 Sep 90 |
| 3 | Copyright (C) 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
| 4 | |
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| 14 | 2) to distribute GNU and other useful software with source code and |
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| 16 | |
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| 19 | prep.ai.mit.edu. |
| 20 | |
| 21 | Information on GNU Internet mailing lists and gnUSENET newsgroupscan |
| 22 | be found in file /pub/gnu/etc/MAILINGLISTS. |
| 23 | |
| 24 | * How To Get The Software |
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| 29 | Internet. The third easiest way is to uucp it. Ftp and uucp |
| 30 | information is in file /pub/gnu/etc/FTP. |
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| 35 | Free Software Foundation. See file /pub/gnu/etc/DISTRIB. |
| 36 | |
| 37 | * Available Software |
| 38 | |
| 39 | ** GNU Emacs |
| 40 | |
| 41 | The GNU Emacs distribution includes: |
| 42 | - manual source in TeX format. |
| 43 | - an enhanced regex (regular expression) library. |
| 44 | |
| 45 | See file /pub/gnu/etc/MACHINES for the status of porting Emacs to |
| 46 | various machines and operating systems. |
| 47 | |
| 48 | ** C Scheme - a block structured dialect of LISP. |
| 49 | |
| 50 | The Free Software Foundation distributes C Scheme for the MIT Scheme |
| 51 | Project on it tapes. A partial ftp distribution can be found on |
| 52 | prep.ai.mit.edu. The full ftp distribution can be found on |
| 53 | zurich.ai.mit.edu. |
| 54 | |
| 55 | Problems with the C Scheme distribution and it's ftp distribution |
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| 61 | |
| 62 | ** Other GNU Software |
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| 64 | A fuller list of available software are in the files |
| 65 | /pub/gnu/etc/DISTRIB and /pub/gnu/etc/FTP. |
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| 84 | address found in file /pub/gnu/etc/DISTRIB. |
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