Getting GNU Software, 10 Apr 1987 Copyright (C) 1986, 1987 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies of this document provided that the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved. * GNU and the Free Software Foundation Project GNU is organized as part of the Free Software Foundation, Inc. The Free Sofware Foundation has the following goals: 1) to create GNU as a full development/operating system. 2) to distribute GNU and other useful software with source code and permission to copy and redistribute. Further information on the rationale for GNU is in file /u2/emacs/etc/GNU. (All files referred to are on the Internet host prep.ai.mit.edu (aka mit-prep.arpa).) Information on GNU Internet mailing lists can be found in file /u2/emacs/etc/MAILINGLISTS. * How To Get The Software The easiest way to get a copy of the distribution is from someone else who has it. You need not ask for permission to do so, or tell any one else; just copy it. The second easiest is to ftp it over the ARPANET. The third easiest way is to uucp it. Ftp and uucp information is in file /u2/emacs/etc/FTP. If you cannot get a copy any of these ways, you can order one from the Free Software Foundation. See file /u2/emacs/etc/DISTRIB. * Available Software ** GNU Emacs The GNU Emacs distribution includes: - manual source in TeX format. - an enhanced regex (regular expression) library. See file /u2/emacs/etc/MACHINES for the status of porting Emacs to various machines and operating systems. ** C Scheme - a block structured dialect of LISP. The Free Software Foundation distributes C Scheme for the MIT Scheme Project. Problems with the C Scheme distribution and it's ftp distribution should be referred to: . There are two general mailing lists: and . Requests to join either list to: or . The C Scheme distribution should work on 32-bit machines under VMS, BSD 4.1 & 4.2, ATT systems 3 and 5, HPUX, and TRIX. Some conditionalization may have to be done for other machines and operating systems. For further information on Scheme refer to: "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs", by Harold Abelson and Gerald J. Sussman with Julie Sussman, The MIT Press & McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1985; and, the "Revised^3 Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme", MIT Artificial Intelligence Memo 848a. The later may be obtained by sending a check for $6.00 (as of Nov. 86) per copy (U.S. funds) payable to (prepayment is required): Publications, Room NE43-818 MIT Artifical Intelligence Laboratory 545 Technology Square Cambridge, MA 02139 It is also available as: Jonathan Rees and William Clinger, editors, "Revised^3 Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme." SIGPLAN Notices 21(12), December 1986. ** Other GNU Software A fuller list of available software is in the file /u2/emacs/etc/DISTRIB. * No Warranties We distribute software in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty. No author or distributor of this software accepts responsibility to anyone for the consequences of using it or for whether it serves any particular purpose or works at all, unless he says so in writing. * If You Like The Software If you like the software developed and distributed by the Free Software Foundation, please express your satisfaction with a donation. Your donations will help to support the foundation and make our future efforts successful, including a complete development and operating system, called GNU (Gnu's Not Un*x), which will run Un*x user programs. For more information on GNU and the Foundation, contact us at Internet address or the foundation's US Mail address found in file /u2/emacs/etc/DISTRIB.