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GNU's Bulletin June, 1993
The GNU's Bulletin is the semi-annual newsletter of the Free Software Foundation, bringing you news about the GNU Project.
Free Software Foundation, Inc. Telephone: (617) 876-3296
675 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139-3309
USA Electronic mail: [email protected]
GNU's Who
GNU's Bulletin
What Is the Free Software Foundation?
What Is Copyleft?
Free Software Support
Hundred Acre Consulting Expands
Donations Translate Into Free Software
Cygnus Matches Donations!
OCEAN Integrated-Circuit Design System
Informal ``GCC Consortium''
GNUs Flashes
Moscow Free Software Conference
LPF Files Amicus Brief
What Is the LPF?
Project GNU Wish List
The Text Software Initiative
Free Information Sources
Free Software and GNU in Japan
Project GNU Status Report
GNU Documentation
GNU Software Available Now
Contents of the Emacs Tape
Contents of the Scheme Tape
Contents of the Languages Tape
Contents of the Utilities Tape
Contents of the Experimental Tape
Contents of the X11 Tapes
Berkeley Networking 2 Tape
VMS Emacs and Compiler Tapes
Tape Subscription Service
How to Get GNU Software
GNU Source Code CD-ROM
The Deluxe Distribution
MS-DOS Distribution
Contents of the Demacs diskettes
Contents of the DJGPP diskettes
Contents of the Selected Utilities diskettes
Contents of the Windows diskette
Free Software for Microcomputers
FSF T-shirt
Thank GNUs
Free Software Foundation Order Form
Michael Bushnell is still working on the GNU Hurd and maintains
GNU tar. Jim Blandy has prepared GNU Emacs 19.
Roland McGrath is polishing the GNU C library, maintaining GNU
make and helping with the GNU Hurd.
Tom Lord is working on Oleo, the GNU spreadsheet, as well as Rx,
a faster replacement for regex. Jan Brittenson is working on
the C interpreter. Mike Haertel is making GNU grep
POSIX-compliant and beginning work on optical character recognition.
Noah Friedman is our system ambiguator, release uncoordinator
and maintains a few GNU programs in his copious spare time.
Carl Hoffman has hopped aboard as fundraiser and conference organizer. Melissa Weisshaus is now in charge of Publications. She is currently editing new editions of our documentation and working on the GNU Utilities Manual.
Lisa `Opus' Goldstein has been promoted to Treasurer, after the resignation of Robert J. Chassell who had been our Secretary/Treasurer since FSF was formed 7 years ago; Bob is now writing his Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp and remains on our Board of Directors. Larissa Carlson is Lisa's new office assistant; Gena Lynne Bean has left us to further her education. Spike MacPhee assists RMS with administrative tasks. Charles Hannum works on typesetting and many other jobs.
Richard Stallman continues as a volunteer who does countless tasks such as C compiler maintenance. Volunteer Len Tower remains our on-line JOAT (jack-of-all-trades), handling mailing lists and gnUSENET, information requests, etc.
Written and Edited by: Jan Brittenson, Melissa Weisshaus,
Noah S. Friedman,
Charles Hannum,
Richard Stallman
and Leonard H. Tower Jr.
Illustrations by: Etienne Suvasa and Jamal Hannah
Japanese Edition by: Mieko Hikichi and Nobuyuki Hikichi
The GNU's Bulletin is published in January and June of each year. Please note that there is no postal mailing list. To get a copy, send your name and address with your request to the address on the front page. Enclosing a business sized self-addressed stamped envelope ($0.52) and/or a donation of a few dollars is appreciated but not required. If you're from outside the USA, sending a mailing label rather than an envelope and enough International Reply Coupons for a package of about 100 grams is appreciated but not required. (Including a few extra International Reply Coupons for copying costs is also appreciated.)
Copyright (C) 1993 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies of this document, in any medium, provided that the copyright notice and permission notice are preserved and that the distributor grants the recipient permission for further redistribution as permitted by this notice.
The Free Software Foundation is dedicated to eliminating restrictions on people's abilities and rights to copy, redistribute, understand and modify computer programs. We do this by promoting the development and use of free software in all areas of computer use. Specifically, we are putting together a complete integrated software system named "GNU" (GNU's Not Unix) (pronounced "guh-new") that will be upwardly compatible with Unix. Most parts of this system are already working and we are distributing them now.
The word "free" in our name pertains to freedom, not price. You may or may not pay money to get GNU software. Either way, you have two specific freedoms once you have the software: first, the freedom to copy the program and give it away to your friends and co-workers; and second, the freedom to change the program as you wish, by having full access to source code. Furthermore, you can study the source and learn how such programs are written. You may then be able to port it, improve it and share your changes with others. If you redistribute GNU software, you may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, or you may give away copies.
Other organizations distribute whatever free software happens to be available. By contrast, the Free Software Foundation concentrates on the development of new free software, working towards a GNU system complete enough to eliminate the need for you to purchase a proprietary system.
Besides developing GNU, FSF distributes copies of GNU software and manuals for a distribution fee, and accepts tax-deductible gifts to support GNU development. Most of FSF's funds come from its distribution service. We are tax exempt; you can deduct donations to us on your U.S. tax returns.
The Officers of the Foundation are: Richard M. Stallman, President; and Lisa Goldstein, Treasurer/Secretary. The Foundation Board of Directors are: Richard M. Stallman, Gerald J. Sussman, Harold Abelson, Robert J. Chassell, and Leonard H. Tower Jr.
The simplest way to make a program free is to put it in the public domain, uncopyrighted. But this allows anyone to copyright and restrict its use against the author's wishes, thus denying others the right to access and freely redistribute it. This completely perverts the original intent.
To prevent this, we copyright our software in a novel manner. Typical software companies use copyrights to take away your freedoms. We use the copyleft to preserve them. It is a legal instrument that requires those who pass on the program to include the rights to further redistribute it, and to see and change the code; the code and rights become legally inseparable.
The copyleft used by the GNU Project is made from a combination of a regular copyright notice and the GNU General Public License (GPL). The GPL is a copying license which basically says that you have the freedoms discussed above. An alternate form, the GNU Library General Public License (LGPL), applies to certain GNU Libraries. This license permits linking the libraries into proprietary executables under certain conditions. The appropriate license is included in all GNU source code distributions and in many of our manuals. We will also send you a printed copy upon request.
The Free Software Foundation does not provide any technical support. Although we create software, we leave it to others to earn a living providing support. We see programmers as providing a service, much as doctors and lawyers now do; both medical and legal knowledge are freely redistributable entities for which the practitioners charge a distribution and service fee.
We maintain a list of people who offer support and other consulting
services, called the GNU Service Directory. It is in the file
`etc/SERVICE' in the GNU Emacs distribution, `SERVICE' in the
GCC distribution and `/pub/gnu/GNUinfo/SERVICE' on anonymous FTP host
prep.ai.mit.edu. Contact us if you would like a printed copy
or wish to be listed in it.
If you find a deficiency in any GNU software, we want to know. We have
many Internet mailing lists for bug reports, announcements and questions.
They are also gatewayed into USENET news as the gnu.* newsgroups.
You can get a list of these mailing lists by mailing your request to either
address on the front cover.
When we receive a bug report, we usually try to fix the problem. While our bug fixes may seem like individual assistance, they are not. Our task is so large that we must focus on that which helps the community as a whole. We do not have the resources to help individuals. We may send you a patch for a bug that helps us test the fix and ensure its quality. If your bug report does not evoke a solution from us, you may still get one from another user who reads our bug report mailing lists. Otherwise, use the Service Directory.
So, please do not ask us to help you install the software or figure out how to use it--but do tell us how an installation script does not work or where the documentation is unclear.
If you have no Internet access, you can get mail and USENET news via UUCP. Contact a local UUCP site, or a commercial UUCP site such as:
UUNET Communications Services
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Phone: 1-800-4UUNET4 or (703) 204-8000
Fax: (703) 204-8001
E-mail: [email protected]
A long list of commercial UUCP and Internet service providers is posted
periodically to USENET in the newsgroup news.announce.newusers
with `Subject: How to become a USENET site'.
Hundred Acre Consulting continues to provide support and development services, with its specialty being the GNU CC and C++ compilers. It continues its policy of donating a percentage of its profit to the FSF. Since we described its services just 5 months ago, it has hired 3 more people and moved to bigger offices. The new address is:
Hundred Acre Consulting
5301 Longley Lane, Suite D-144
Reno, NV 89511
USA
Phone: (702) 829-9700 or 1-800-245-2885
Fax: (702) 829-9926
E-mail: [email protected]
If you appreciate Emacs, GNU CC, Ghostscript and other free software, you may wish to help us make sure there is more in the future--remember, donations translate into more free software!
Your donation to us is tax-deductible in the United States. We gladly accept all currencies, although the U.S. dollar is the most convenient.
If your employer has a matching gifts program for charitable donations, please arrange to have your donation matched by your employer. If you do not know, please ask your personnel department.
$500 $250 $100 $50 other $________ Other currency:________
Circle the amount you are donating, cut out this form, and send it with your donation to:
Free Software Foundation 675 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139-3309 USA
To encourage cash donations to the Free Software Foundation, Cygnus Support will match gifts by its employees, and by its customers and their employees.
Cygnus will match donations from its employees up to a maximum of $1000 per employee, and will match donations from customers and their employees at 50% to a maximum of $1000 per customer. Cygnus Support will donate up to a total of $10,000 in 1993.
Donations payable to the Free Software Foundation should be sent by eligible persons to Cygnus Support where they will be matched and forwarded to the FSF each quarter. The FSF will provide the contributor with a receipt to recognize the contribution (which is tax-deductible on U.S. tax returns). Donations sent to the FSF directly will not be matched, except by prior arrangement with Cygnus Support.
Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, has developed OCEAN, a comprehensive chip design package. It includes a full set of powerful tools for synthesis and verification of semi-custom sea-of-gates and gate-array chips. OCEAN covers the back-end of the design trajectory--from circuit level, down to layout and a working chip.
OCEAN provides interactive tools for placement, routing, simulation and extraction, either automatically or manually guided. It is available as free software, with full source code, and is known to run on Linux, HP and Sun workstations under the X Window System. For import and export of data, it knows about EDIF, BLIF, SLS, GDSII, CIF, SPICE and LDM.
You can obtain OCEAN by anonymous FTP from
donau.et.tudelft.nl. For more information, contact
[email protected] on the Internet.
A group of companies including Intel, Motorola, Texas Instruments & Analog Devices have pooled funds to support central maintenance of GNU CC. The maintenance will be coordinated by Richard Kenner of New York University.
The task of central maintenance is to take responsibility for fixing bugs, integrating and cleaning up contributions, making releases and writing high priority improvements.
Richard Stallman hopes this will enable him to undertake a new project.
p2c, DejaGnu, Tile Forth and the standalone GNU
regex library have been added. Details in "Contents of the
Languages Tape".
acm, dc, doschk, es, Gnats, rc,
GNU Shogi and UUCP have been added. See "Contents of the
Utilities Tape" for more information.
cpp with their C compiler.
[email protected], or get file
`/pub/FWF/README' via anonymous FTP to a.cs.uiuc.edu.
This file tells about mailing lists, locations of source code available for
FTP, historical information about the FWF and how to volunteer for the
organization. Or write:
The Free Widget Foundation c/o Brian Totty Department of Computer Science University of Illinois - Urbana 1304 W. Springfield Avenue Urbana, IL 61801 USA
The International Center for Scientific and Technical Information hosted a free software conference in Moscow, April 19--23, 1993. Over two hundred people attended, arriving from the Commonwealth of Independent States, Austria, Denmark, Germany, Iran, Japan, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States of America.
Guest of honor Richard Stallman explained why he writes free
software. Among the topics of the conference were an Algol--68 to C
converter, the Andrew User Interface System, Coexistence in a World of
New Freedoms, Efficient Recognition of Static Search Sets with
gperf, experiences from implementing a free Modula--2
translator, Russian Experiences from a Children's Computer Club, the
Russian SQL server currently under development, the Russian PLATON
Integrated Bank System, GNU Documentation in Russia, Linux in Education
and Free Software in Russia. Other topics included resource
organization (databases and directories), and free software business
aspects.
The conference was sponsored by PC World magazine, PC Center "Techno", UrbanSoft Ltd. of St. Petersburg, Trading House Ostankino, KLOTO Scientific Research, Zelenogradsky Center "Zelax" and John Goode.
Write Victor P. Ivannikov, [email protected],
Sergei Kuznetsov, [email protected], or Yuri P.
Smirnov, [email protected], to contact GNU in Russia.
For more information about the conference, contact Geoffrey S.
Knauth, [email protected].
The League for Programming Freedom has filed an amicus ("friend of the court") brief to support American Multi-Systems, a small business that was shut down by a court for violating two casino game software patents held by a company called Fortunet.
Fortunet, which has shut down other makers of casino games in the
past, obtained a preliminary injunction restraining Vern Blanchard,
the owner of AMS, from selling or servicing a Bingo program. The League
for Programming Freedom asked its members for prior art. Marshall
Midden and Steve Peltz found a multi--user Bingo program that had
been played on the Plato system in the 1970's. The judge,
however, granted the motion on the grounds that a time--sharing system
playing Bingo is different from a networked system playing Bingo.
Fortunet has an expert witness with an impressive resume who is
expressing the most absurd opinions.
The LPF brief argues against the validity of software patents in general and these patents in particular. It also argues that they do not apply to the AMS Bingo system. The brief has already had an effect--the judge has scheduled a hearing to reconsider the injuction.
Fighting a patent in court is a grueling experience even if you ultimately succeed. The only feasible way to solve the problem of software patents is to address the problem as a whole. This is the main activity of the LPF. To succeed, it needs your support.
The League for Programming Freedom (LPF) aims to protect the freedom to write software. This freedom is threatened by "look-and-feel" interface copyright lawsuits and by software patents. The LPF does not endorse free software or the FSF.
The League's members include programmers, entrepreneurs, students, professors, and even software companies.
From the League membership form:
The League for Programming Freedom is a grass-roots organization of professors, students, business people, programmers, and users dedicated to bringing back the freedom to write programs. The League is not opposed to the legal system that Congress intended--copyright on individual programs. Our aim is to reverse the recent changes made by judges in response to special interests.
Membership dues in the League are $42 per year for programmers, managers and professionals; $10.50 for students; $21 for others.
To join, please send a check and the following information:
The League is not connected with the Free Software Foundation and is not itself a free software organization. The FSF supports the LPF because, like any software developer smaller than IBM, it is endangered by software patents. You are in danger too! It would be easy to ignore the problem until you or your employer is sued, but it is more prudent to organize before that happens.
If you haven't made up your mind yet, write to LPF for more information,
or send Internet mail to [email protected]. The address is:
League for Programming Freedom
1 Kendall Square - #143
P.O. Box 9171
Cambridge, MA 02139
USA
Phone: (617) 243-4091
Email: [email protected]
Wishes for this issue are for:
[email protected] for the task list and coding standards.
[email protected].
The Text Software Initiative (TSI) is an international effort to promote the development and use of free software for all kinds of text analysis and manipulation, including markup of physical and logical text features, linguistic analysis and annotation, browsing and retrieval, statistical analysis and other text-related tasks in research in computational linguistics, humanities computing, terminology and lexicography, speech, etc. A central component of TSI is the development of guidelines and standards for text software, in order to ensure compatibility, extendability and reusability.
TSI borrows from the principles of FSF, by promoting distributed software development on a voluntary basis and protecting the freedom to copy, redistribute and modify software.
For more information, contact the project coordinators, who are Nancy
Ide, [email protected] and Jean Veronis,
[email protected].
There is more to freely redistributable information than software. Here is a partial list of organizations providing other forms of freely redistributable information.
[email protected], is working on a
project called "FreeLore". One goal is to create a core of useful,
copylefted textbooks. Currently, he is testing a prototype curriculum
for students from junior-high school through early college; the
curriculum is written in Texinfo. The FreeLore project is looking for
volunteers. For more information, contact John Goodwin.
obi.std.com. You can also dial
world.std.com with a modem (617-739-9753, 8N1) and create an
account to access this information (login as new). Accounts on
world are charged for their connect time (ask
[email protected] for details).
mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu in file `/etext' and
oes.orst.edu in file `/pub/almanac/etext'. For
instructions on how to obtain text from Bitnet, send the word `HELP' in
the body of a message to BITFTP@PUCC
(BITFTP%[email protected] on the Internet).
Instructions will be mailed. Or look at
bit.listserv.gutnberg, a USENET
newsgroup.
ICOT (Institute for Next Generation Computer Technology) is distributing
the fifth-generation software produced by their research efforts as free
software. This includes over 70 megabytes of programs for symbol
processing, knowledge representation, problem solving and inference and
natural language processing. For more information, contact
[email protected].
Mieko, [email protected], and Nobuyuki Hikichi,
[email protected], continue to work on the GNU Project in
Japan. They have translated the FSF Order Form and GNU's Bulletin into
Japanese and are distributing them widely. They ask for donations and
also offer GNU software consulting. Recently they began redistributing
their Japanese translation of the GNU General Public License Version 2.
This translation is authorized by the FSF and is available by anonymous
FTP from srawgw.sra.co.jp in
`/pub/gnu/local-fix/GPL2-j'. Yukitoshi Fujimura from
Addison--Wesley Publishers in Japan greatly contributed to this
translation. Work is underway on a formal translation of the GNU Library
General Public License.
Japanese versions of GNU Emacs (nemacs), Epoch (nepoch)
and MULE are available and widely used in Japan. MULE (the MULtilingual
Enhancement of GNU Emacs) can handle many character sets at once.
Eventually its features will be merged into FSF's version of Emacs.
Ken'ichi Handa, [email protected], is beta testing MULE; you
can FTP sources from sh.wide.ad.jp in `/JAPAN/mule'
or etlport.etl.go.jp in `/pub/mule'.
The Village Center, Inc. has printed a Japanese translation of the GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual and uploaded the Texinfo source to various bulletin boards. Recently, they also published a copylefted book, Mieko's Think GNU. This appears to be the first copylefted publication in Japan, apart from those by the FSF. Part of the revenue generated is donated to the FSF. The address is:
Village Center, Inc. Kanda Amerex Bldg. 2F 1-16, 3-Chome, Misaki-Cho Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101 Japan
A group connected with the commercial personal computer network in Japan
is writing and distributing a copylefted hardware (circuit diagram)
design system that runs on a MIPS-architecture CPU. The t2 OS,
which runs on this machine, is a subset of Unix that uses GCC and GDB as
the system's compiler and debugger. They are also running Mach and
MIPS-BSD.
Many groups in Japan distribute GNU software, including JUG (a PC user
group), ASCII (publishers) and the Fujitsu FM Towns users group.
Anonymous UUCP is also now available in Japan; for more information
contact [email protected]. Publishers in Japan are steadily
releasing more articles and books about GNU software and FSF.
You can order GNU software directly from the FSF. For Japan, we provide
an FSF Order Form written in Japanese, as well as a toll--free facsimile
number; ask [email protected] for a copy of
the order form. We encourage you to buy tapes: every 150 tape orders
allows FSF to hire a programmer for a year to write more free software.
The FSF does not distribute nemacs, nepoch or MULE on
tape; however MULE is available on the GNU Source Code CD-ROM.
[email protected].
recover-file also reinstalls the buffer's undo history
g77)
GNU Fortran is in "private" alpha test (testing by a small group of
experts) and is not yet publicly released. Until g77 is fully
released to the public, we ask people to use f2c (a Fortran-to-C
translator) with gcc (the GNU C compiler). As g77 uses a
lot of these two tools (the f2c libraries and the gcc back
end), using them and reporting any problems you find will help speed the
release of g77. See "Contents of the Languages Tapes."
The primary focus of the alpha test is to test the g77 front end,
since that has most of the new code. The secondary focus of the alpha
test is to test the integration between the front end and the back end.
Currently, this is where most of the bugs seem to be. The tertiary
focus is the quality of code generated by the GNU back end.
A mailing list exists for those interested in g77. To subscribe,
please ask [email protected]. To
contact the author and/or current maintainer of g77, write to
[email protected].
malloc
which wastes less memory than the old GNU malloc. The GNU
regular-expression functions (regex) now mostly conform to the
POSIX 1003.2 standard.
GNU stdio lets you define new kinds of streams, just by writing a
few C functions. The fmemopen function uses this to open a
stream on a string, which can grow as necessary. You can define your
own printf formats to use a C function you have written. For
example, you can safely use format strings from user input to implement
a printf-like function for another programming language.
Extended getopt functions are already used to parse options,
including long options, in many GNU utilities.
Version 1.06 of the GNU C Library has just been released. It includes
the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19, as well as new ports to Dynix
on Sequent Symmetry, SCO and SVR4 on i386, and Solaris 2 on SPARC. This
is the first release to include the GNU C Library Reference
Manual. For more information, see "Contents of Experimental Tape."
[email protected].
nexus.yorku.ca in `/pub/scheme/new',
altdorf.ai.mit.edu in `/archive/scm' or
prep.ai.mit.edu in `/pub/gnu/jacal'.
The FSF is not distributing JACAL on tape, diskettes or CD-ROM yet. To
receive an IBM PC floppy disk with the source and executable files, send
$99.00 to:
Aubrey Jaffer 84 Pleasant Street Wakefield, MA 01880 USA
make
GNU make version 3.67 has just been released. It now supports
the popular `+=' syntax for appending more text to a variable's
definition. make has come with a standard GNU configure
script since version 3.63. GNU make complies fully with the
POSIX.2 standard, and also supports long options, parallel command
execution, flexible implicit pattern rules, conditional execution and
powerful text manipulation functions. For those with no vendor-supplied
make utility at all, GNU make now comes with a shell
script called `build.sh' to build make the first time,
before you have any make program to use.
gnuplot
and for generating embedded Postscript. Oleo still needs documentation.
If you would like to write a Texinfo manual for Oleo, contact Tom Lord,
[email protected]. Please send bug reports regarding
Oleo to [email protected]. See "Contents of
Experimental Tape."
enscript); a utility to extract the text from a Postscript
document; a much more reliable (and faster) Microsoft Windows
implementation; support for Microsoft C/C++ 7.0; drivers for many
new printers, including the SPARCprinter, and for TIFF/F (fax) file
format; many more Postscript Level 2 facilities, including most of the
color space facilities (but not patterns), and the ability to switch
between Level 1 and Level 2 dynamically.
Ghostscript accepts commands in Postscript and executes them by writing
directly to a printer, drawing on an X window or writing to a file that
you can print later (or to a bitmap file that you can manipulate with
other graphics programs). Tim Theisen,
[email protected], has created Ghostview, a previewer
for multi-page files that runs on top of Ghostscript. Russell Lang,
[email protected], has created Ghostview for
Windows, a similar previewer that runs on Microsoft Windows.
Ghostscript includes a C-callable graphics library (for client programs
that do not want to deal with the Postscript language). It also supports
IBM PCs and compatibles with EGA, VGA or SuperVGA graphics (but please do
not ask the FSF staff any questions about this; we do not use PCs).
The next planned Ghostscript release will be 3.0, available in the first
quarter of 1994. It will implement the full Postscript Level 2
language.
groff
James Clark has completed groff (GNU troff and related
programs). Written in C++, they can be compiled with GNU C++
Version 2.3 or later.
Bugs in groff will be fixed, but no major new developments are
currently planned. However, groff users are encouraged to
continue to contribute enhancements. Most needed are complete Texinfo
documentation, a grap emulation (a pic preprocessor for
typesetting graphs), a page-makeup postprocessor similar to pm
(see Computing Systems, Vol. 2, No. 2) and an ASCII output
class for pic so that pic can be integrated with Texinfo.
Thanks to all those who have contributed bug reports.
makeinfo, a standalone formatter, and info, a standalone
Info reader are included. Both are written in C and are independent of
GNU Emacs.
Stuart Cracraft
P.O. Box 2841
Laguna Hills, CA
USA
Phone: (714) 770-8532
E-mail: [email protected]
Matthias Mutz
Universitaet Passau, FMI
94030 Passau
Germany
E-mail: [email protected]
GNU is dedicated to having quality, easy-to-use on-line and printed documentation. GNU manuals are intended to explain the underlying concepts, describe how to use all the features of each program, and give examples of command use. GNU manuals are distributed as Texinfo source files, which yield both typeset hardcopy and on-line hypertext-like display via the menu-driven Info system. These manuals, source for which is provided with our software, are also available in hardcopy; see the "Free Software Foundation Order Form."
Several GNU manuals are now bound as soft cover books with a new lay-flat binding technology. This allows you to open them so they lie flat on a table without creasing the binding. Each book has an inner cloth spine and an outer cardboard cover that will not break or crease as an ordinary paperback will. Currently, the Emacs, Emacs Lisp Reference, Texinfo, GAWK, Make, GDB, Bison and Flex manuals have this binding. All other GNU manuals are also bound so they lie flat when opened, using other technologies.
The Emacs Manual describes editing with GNU Emacs. The new 8th
edition has been updated for Emacs 19. It also explains advanced
features, such as outline mode and regular expression search, how to use
special modes for programming in languages like C++ and TeX, how
to use the tags utility, how to compile and correct code, and how
to make your own keybindings and other elementary customizations.
The GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual covers this programming language in great depth, including data types, control structures, functions, macros, syntax tables, searching and matching, modes, windows, keymaps, markers, byte compilation and the operating system interface.
The Texinfo Manual explains the markup language used to generate both the online Info documentation and typeset hardcopies. It tells you how to make tables, lists, chapters, nodes, indexes, cross references, how to use Texinfo mode in GNU Emacs and how to catch mistakes.
The GAWK Manual describes how to use the GNU implementation of
awk. It is written for someone who has never used awk and
describes all the features of this powerful string and record
manipulation language.
The Make Manual describes GNU make, a program used to
rebuild parts of other programs. The manual tells how to write
makefiles, which specify how a program is to be compiled and how
its files depend on each other. The new edition of the manual describes
the new features in make version 3.64, and includes a new
introductory chapter for novice users, as well as a new section on
automatically generated dependencies.
Debugging with GDB explains how to use the GNU Debugger, run your program under debugger control, examine and alter data, modify the flow of control within the program and use GDB through GNU Emacs.
The Bison Manual teaches you how to write context-free grammars for the Bison program that convert into C-coded parsers. You need no prior knowledge of parser generators.
The Flex Manual tells you how to write a lexical scanner
definition for the flex program to create a C-coded scanner that
will recognize the patterns described. You need no prior knowledge of
scanner generators.
Using and Porting GNU CC explains how to run, install and port the GNU C compiler. Currently, we are distributing two versions of GCC, version 1 and version 2, each documented by a different edition of the manual.
The Termcap Manual, often described as "Twice as much as you ever wanted to know about Termcap," details the format of the Termcap database, the definitions of terminal capabilities and the process of interrogating a terminal description. This manual is primarily for programmers.
The Emacs Calc Manual includes both a tutorial and a reference manual for Calc. It describes how to do ordinary arithmetic, how to use Calc for algebra, calculus and other forms of mathematics, and how to extend Calc.
The C Library Reference Manual describes almost all of the
facilities of the GNU C library, including both what Unix calls
"library functions" and "system calls." We are doing limited print
runs of this manual until it becomes more stable. It is new, and we
would like corrections and improvements. Please send them to
[email protected].
We offer Unix software source distributions tapes in tar format
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make 3.67
GNU make supports POSIX 1003.2 and has all but a few obscure
features of the BSD and System V versions of make, as well as
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manipulation. Source for the Make Manual comes with the program.
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This tape contains MIT Scheme 7.1. Scheme is a simplified, lexically-scoped dialect of Lisp. It was designed at MIT and other universities to teach students the art of programming, and to research new parallel programming constructs and compilation techniques. The current version conforms to the "Revised^4 Report On the Algorithmic Language Scheme" (MIT AI Lab Memo 848b), for which TeX source is included.
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This tape contains programming tools: compilers, interpreters and related programs (parsers, conversion programs, debuggers, etc.).
cfront (the AT&T compiler), as cfront
has been diverging from ANSI. G++ 1 comes with source for the
GNU G++ User's Guide (not yet published on paper). G++
compiles source quickly, provides good error messages and works well with
GDB. Each release of G++ 1 depends on the same numbered release of GCC
1 (in GCC version 2, G++ is merged with GCC).
ld or GDB) to support many different formats
in a clean way. BFD provides a portable interface, so that only BFD needs
to know the actual details of a particular format. One consequence of this
design is that all of programs using BFD will support formats such as
a.out, COFF, ELF and ROSE. BFD comes with documentation in Texinfo form.
ae
ae works with GCC to produce more complete profiling information.
ar, gprof, ld, nm,
ranlib, size and strip. The GNU linker ld is
fast, and is the only linker which emits source-line numbered error
messages for multiply-defined symbols and undefined references.
yacc, with more features. Bison Manual and reference card
sources are included.
robotussin is supplied for
converting standard libraries to this format. However, this workaround is
becoming obsolete, as it is being replaced by BFD (see "Project GNU Status
Report" and "Contents of the Languages Tape").
expect 4.5.2 alpha and Tcl 6.7
DejaGnu is a framework for testing other programs. Its purpose is to
provide a single front end for all tests. The flexibility and consistency
of the DejaGnu framework make it easy to write tests for any program.
expect (which runs scripts to conduct dialogs with programs) and Tcl
(an embeddable tool command language) are both provided in this package,
since DejaGnu uses them and they are useful programs in their own right.
dld 3.2.3
dld is a dynamic linker written by W. Wilson Ho. Linking your
program with the dld library allows you to dynamically load object
files into the running binary.
f2c 1993.04.28
f2c converts Fortran--77 source files into C or C++, which can
then be compiled with GCC.
flex 2.3.8
flex is a mostly-compatible replacement for the lex scanner
generator, written by Vern Paxson of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.
flex generates far more efficient scanners than lex does.
Sources for the Flex Manual and reference card are included.
as and works for 32x32, m68k, 80386,
SPARC (Sun-4) & VAX.
awk. Source for the GAWK Manual comes with the software.
gdbm 1.5
The gdbm library is the GNU replacement for the traditional
dbm and ndbm libraries, which implement a database using
quick lookup by hashing. gdbm supports both styles but does not
need sparse database formats (unlike its Unix counterparts).
gmp 1.3.2
GNU MP (gmp) is a library for arbitrary precision arithmetic,
operating on signed integers and rational numbers. It has a rich set of
functions, all with a regular interface.
gperf 2.1
gperf is a "perfect" hash-table generation utility. There are
actually two implementations of gperf, one written in C and one in
C++. Both will produce hash functions in either C or C++.
indent 1.7
indent is the GNU-modified version of the freely-redistributable BSD
program of the same name. It formats C source according to GNU coding
standards by default, though the original default and other formats are
available as options.
p2c 1.20
p2c is a Pascal-to-C translator written by Dave Gillespie. It is
intended primarily for use on 32-bit machines, though porting it to convert
code to work on 16-bit machines may be possible.
perl 4.036
Larry Wall has written a fast interpreter named perl which combines
the features and capabilities of sed, awk, sh and C,
as well as interfaces to all the system calls and many C library routines.
Perl Mode for editing perl code comes with GNU Emacs 19.
gzip 1.0.7 and make 3.67
See "Contents of the Emacs Tape" for a full description of these
programs.
This tape consists mostly of smaller utilities and miscellaneous applications not available on the other GNU tapes.
m4 macro calls. Many GNU
programs now use Autoconf-generated configure scripts.
sh and offers many extensions found in csh and
ksh. BASH has job control, csh-style command history and
command-line editing (with Emacs and vi modes built-in and the
ability to rebind keys) via the readline library.
bc 1.02
bc is an interactive algebraic language with arbitrary precision.
GNU bc was implemented from the POSIX 1003.2 draft standard, but it
has several extensions including multi-character variable names, an
else statement and full Boolean expressions.
cpio 2.2
cpio is an alternative archive program with all the features of SVR4
cpio, including support for the final POSIX 1003.1 ustar
standard.
dc 0.2
dc is an RPN calculator. GNU bc does not require a separate
dc program to run. This version of dc will eventually be
merged with the bc package.
diffutils 2.3
GNU diff compares files showing line-by-line changes in several
flexible formats. It is much faster than the traditional Unix versions.
The "diffutils" distribution contains diff, diff3,
sdiff and cmp.
doschk 1.1
This program is intended as a utility to help software developers ensure
that their source file names are distinguishable on System V platforms with
14-character filenames and on MS-DOS with 11 character filenames.
elvis 1.7
elvis is a clone of the vi/ex Unix editor. It
supports nearly all of the vi/ex commands in both visual and
line mode. elvis runs under BSD, System V, Xenix, Minix, MS-DOS and
Atari TOS, and should be easy to port to many other systems.
es 0.84
This is an extensible shell based on rc but with more features
including first class functions, lexical scope, an exception system and
rich return values (i.e. functions can return values other than just
numbers). Like rc, it is great for both interactive use and for
scripting, particularly because its quoting rules are much less baroque
than the C or Bourne shells.
find 3.8
find is frequently used both interactively and in shell scripts to
find files which match certain criteria and perform arbitrary operations on
them. xargs and locate are also included.
finger 1.37
GNU Finger works on a wide variety of systems. For more information, see
the "Project GNU Status Report."
acm 2.4, MandelSpawn 0.06, GNU Chess 4.0.pl61,
NetHack 3.1, GnuGo 1.1, GNU Shogi 1.1.pl01 and hello
1.3
acm is a LAN-oriented, multiplayer aerial combat simulation that
runs under the X Window System. Players engage in air to air combat
against one another using heat seeking missiles and cannons. Eventually we
hope to turn this into a more general purpose flight simulator.
MandelSpawn is a parallel Mandelbrot program for the MIT X Window System.
GNU Chess and GNU Shogi have text and X display interfaces (see "Project
GNU Status Report"). NetHack is a display-oriented adventure game similar
to Rogue. GnuGo plays the game of Go (Wei-Chi); it is not yet very
sophisticated. GNU Shogi plays a Japanese game, similar to Chess, known as
"Shogi". A major difference from Western Chess is that captured pieces
can be returned into play.
The GNU hello program produces a familiar, friendly greeting. It
allows non-programmers to use a classic computer science tool which would
otherwise be unavailable to them. Because it is protected by the GNU
General Public License, users are free to share and change it.
gnuplot 3.2
gnuplot is an interactive program for plotting mathematical
expressions and data. Curiously, the program was neither written nor named
for the GNU Project; the name is a coincidence.
See the entry on GNU Graphics in "Contents of the Experimental Tape" for
information on a related program.
gptx 0.2
gptx is the GNU version of ptx, a permuted index generator.
Among other things, it produces readable "KWIC" (KeyWords In Context)
indexes without the need of nroff and there is an option to output
TeX code.
grep/egrep/fgrep 2.0
The [ef]grep programs are GNU's versions of the Unix programs of the
same name. They are much faster than the traditional Unix versions.
groff 1.08 and mgm 1.07
groff is a document formatting system, which includes
implementations of troff, pic, eqn, tbl,
refer, the man, ms and mm macros,
as well as drivers for Postscript, TeX dvi format and typewriter-like
devices. Also included is a modified version of the Berkeley me
macros and an enhanced version of the X11 xditview previewer.
mgm is a macro package for groff. It is almost compatible
with the DWB mm macros and has several extensions.
less 177
less is a display paginator similar to more and pg but
with various features (such as the ability to scroll backwards) which most
pagers lack.
m4 1.0.3
GNU m4 is an implementation of the traditional Unix macro processor.
It is mostly SVR4 compatible, although it has some extensions (for example,
handling more than 9 positional parameters to macros). m4 also has
built-in functions for including files, running shell commands, doing
arithmetic, etc.
patch 2.0.12g8
patch is our version of Larry Wall's program to take diff's
output and apply those differences to an original file to generate the
modified version.
diff, RCS can
handle binary files (executables, object files, 8-bit data, etc).
rc 1.4
rc is a shell that features a C-like syntax (much more so than
csh) and far cleaner quoting rules than the C or Bourne shells.
It's intended to be used interactively, but is great for writing scripts as
well.
recode 3.2.4
recode converts between character sets and usages. When exact
transliterations are not possible, it may get rid of offending characters
or fall back on approximations. It recognizes or produces more than a
dozen character sets and can convert each set to almost any other one.
recode pays special attention to superimposition of diacritics,
particularly for French.
screen 3.2b
screen is a terminal multiplexor that runs several independent
"screens" (ttys) on a single physical terminal. Each virtual terminal
emulates a DEC VT100 plus several ANSI X3.64 and ISO 2022 functions.
screen sessions can be detached and resumed later on a different
terminal.
sed 1.16
sed is a stream-oriented version of ed. It is used copiously
in shell scripts.
tar 1.11.2
GNU tar includes multivolume support, the ability to archive sparse
files, automatic archive compression/decompression, remote archives and
special features that allow tar to be used for incremental and full
backups. Unfortunately GNU tar implements an early draft of the
POSIX 1003.1 ustar standard which is different from the final
standard. Adding support for the new changes in a backward-compatible
fashion is not trivial.
time 1.4
time is used to report statistics (usually from a shell) about the
amount of user, system and real time used by a process.
tput 1.0
tput is a portable way to allow shell scripts to use special
terminal capabilities. GNU tput uses the Termcap database, rather
than Terminfo as most implementations do.
f, g (in all
window and packet sizes), G, t and e protocols, as
well a Zmodem protocol and two new bidirectional protocols. If you have a
Berkeley sockets library, it can make TCP connections. If you have TLI
libraries, it can make TLI connections.
wdiff 0.4
wdiff compares two files, finding which words have been deleted or
added to the first in order to obtain the second. We hope eventually to
integrate it, as well as some ideas from a similar program called
spiff, into future releases of GNU diff.
chgrp, chmod,
chown, cp, dd, df, du, install,
ln, ls, mkdir, mkfifo, mknod, mv,
mvdir, rm, rmdir and touch.
The "shellutils" are small commands used on the command line or in shell
scripts: basename, date, dirname, echo,
env, expr, false, groups, id,
logname, nice, nohup, pathchk, printenv,
printf, sleep, stty, su, tee,
test, true, tty, uname, who,
whoami and yes.
The "textutils" programs manipulate textual data: cat,
cksum, comm, csplit, cut, expand,
fold, head, join, nl, od, paste,
pr, sort, split, sum, tac, tail,
tr, unexpand, uniq and wc.
gzip 1.0.7 and make 3.67
See "Contents of the Emacs Tape" for a full description of these
programs.
This tape includes software which is currently in beta test and is available for people who are feeling adventurous. Some of the software already has released versions on the distribution tapes. The contents of this tape are transient; as the programs become stable, they will replace older versions on other tapes. Please send bug reports to the address in the notes for each program on the tape. Note that Emacs 19, in beta test, is on the Emacs tape.
long
long int). It supports extended floating point (type long double)
on the 68k; other machines will follow. It can generate code for most of
the same machines as version 1, plus the following: AMD 29000, Acorn RISC,
DEC Alpha, Elxsi, HP-PA (700 & 800), IBM RS/6000, IBM RT/PC, Intel 80386,
Intel 960, Motorola 88000 & SPARC (running Solaris 2). Version 2 can
generate a.out, COFF, ELF & OSF-Rose files when used with a suitable
assembler. It can produce debugging information in several formats: BSD
stabs, COFF, ECOFF, ECOFF with stabs symbols & DWARF.
Not all of the version 1 machine descriptions have been updated yet; some
do not work, and others need work to take full advantage of instruction
scheduling and delay slots. The old machine descriptions for the Alliant,
Tahoe and Spur (as well as a new port for the Tron) do not work, but are
still included in the distribution in case someone wants to work on them.
Using the new configuration scheme for GCC, building a cross-compiler is as
easy as building a compiler for the same target machine. Version 2
supports more general calling conventions: it can pass arguments "by
reference" and can preallocate the space for stack arguments. GCC 2 on
the SPARC uses the standard conventions for structure arguments and return
values.
Version 2 of the compiler supports three languages: C, C++ and
Objective C; the source file name extension or a compiler option selects
the language. The front end support for Objective C was donated by NeXT.
The runtime support needed to run Objective C programs is now distributed
with GCC (this does not include any Objective C classes aside from
object).
GNU C has been extended to support nested functions, nonlocal gotos and
taking the address of a label.
Texinfo source for the manual, Using and Porting GNU CC, is included.
configure script and runs on Sun-3
(SunOS 4.1), Sun-4 (SunOS 4.1 & Solaris 2), HP 9000/300 & SONY News 800
(4.3 BSD), MIPS DECstation (Ultrix 4), i386/i486 (System V, SVR4, BSD,
386BSD, NetBSD, SCO 3.2 & SCO ODT 2.0) & Sequent Symmetry i386 (Dynix 3).
Source for the new GNU C Library Reference Manual is included.
graph,
xplot and plot2ps; support for output in ln03 and TekniCAD
TDA file formats; a replacement for the spline program; examples of
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[email protected].
This is the result of the work described in the Dr. Dobb's Journal series
on 386BSD.
agate.berkeley.edu in `/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-0.8'. For more
info, contact [email protected].
ftp.clarkson.edu in `/pub/msdos/djgpp'. You can
subscribe to a mailing list on DJGPP by sending your e-mail address to
[email protected].
The FSF is distributing DJGPP both
on floppies and CD
(see "MS-DOS Distribution" and "GNU Source Code CD-ROM").
int86 Lisp function, machine-specific features such as
function key support, file name completion with drive name, child processes
(suspend-emacs and call-process). Dired mode works without
`ls.exe'. Anonymous FTP it from: wuarchive.wustl.edu in
`/mirrors/msdos/demacs', utsun.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp in
`/GNU/demacs' (Japan),
and ftp.funet.fi in `/pub/gnu/emacs/demacs' (Europe).
The FSF is distributing Demacs both
on floppies and CD
(see "MS-DOS Distribution" and "GNU Source Code CD-ROM").
[email protected], has written a small
programmable editor called Freemacs. It is compatible enough with GNU
Emacs that Freemacs users can use the GNU Emacs Manual as a
reference for it. It will run on most MS-DOS systems, including 8088
machines.
Anonymous FTP it from `emacs16a.zip' (under
PD1:<MSDOS.FREEMACS>) from wsmr-simtel20.army.mil; or
send $15 (copying fee) to:
Russ Nelson 11 Grant St. Potsdam, NY 13676 USA Phone: (315) 268-1925 (Fax: 9201)Specify floppy format:
5.25"/360K or 3.50"/720K.
[email protected]
about MS-DOS ports of GNU programs and related mailing lists. Or
anonymous FTP files `/pub/gnu/MicrosPorts/MSDOS*' on
prep.ai.mit.edu.
The FSF is distributing MS-DOS ports of many GNU programs on
both
on floppies
and CD
(see "MS-DOS Distribution"
and "GNU Source Code CD-ROM").
We still have our Free Software Foundation T-shirts available, designed by Cambridge artist Jamal Hannah. The front of the t-shirt has an image of a GNU hacking at a workstation with the text "GNU's Not Unix" above and the text "Free Software Foundation" below. They are available in two colors, Natural and Black. Natural is an off-white, unbleached, undyed, environment-friendly cotton, printed with black ink, and is great for tye-dyeing or displaying as is. Black is printed with white ink and is perfect for late night hacking. All shirts are thick 100% cotton, and are available in sizes M, L, XL and XXL.
Use the "Free Software Foundation Order Form" to order your shirt, and consider getting one as a present for your favorite hacker!
Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.
-Vaclav Havel
Thanks to all those mentioned above in "Informal GCC Consortium", "GNUs Flashes", "Project GNU Status Report", "GNU in Japan" and "GNU Software Available Now".
Thanks to the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and the Laboratory for Computer Science at MIT for their invaluable assistance.
Thanks to the Max-Plack-Institut fuer Informatik Im Stadtwald for buying our Deluxe Distribution package.
Thanks are due to the following people for their assistance in Japan: Nobuyuki Hikichi & Mieko Hikichi, Ken'ichi Handa, Dr. Ikuo Takeuchi, Bob Myers, David Littleboy, Mike Kandall, Prof. Masayuki Ida, SEA & Japan Unix Society, Michio Nagashima & Paul Abramson. Thanks to Village Center, Inc., ASCII Corporation, A.I. Soft and many others in Japan, for their continued donations and support.
Thanks again to the USENIX Association for letting us have a table at their conference; to the Open Software Foundation for their continued support; and to Cygnus Support for assisting Project GNU in many ways.
Thanks to Wired Magazine and Barry Meikle of the University of Toronto Bookstore for donating us ad space in their separate publications.
Thanks to Warren A. Hunt, Jr. and Computational Logic, Inc. for their donation and support.
Jim Blandy thanks Jamie Zawinski for his implementation of some of the X-related features in Emacs 19.
Thanks go out to all those who have either lent or donated machines, including Cygnus Support for a Sun SPARCstation; Hewlett-Packard for two 80486, six 68030 and four Spectrum computers; Brewster Kahle of Thinking Machines Corp. for a Sun-4/110; CMU's Mach Project for a Sun-3/60; Intel Corp. for their 386 machine; NeXT for their workstation; the MIT Media Laboratory for a Hewlett-Packard 68020; SONY Corp. and Software Research Associates, Inc., both of Tokyo, for three SONY News workstations; IBM Corp. for an RS/6000; the MIT Laboratory of Computer Science for the DEC MicroVAX; the Open Software Foundation for the Compaq 386; Delta Microsystems for an Exabyte tape drive; an anonymous donor for 5 IBM RT/PCs; Liant Software Corp. for five VT100s; Jerry Peek for a 386 machine; NCD Corporation for an X terminal; and Interleaf, Inc., Veronika Caslavsky, Paul English, Cindy Woolworth and Lisa Bergen for the loan of a scanner.
Thanks to all those who have contributed ports and extensions, as well as those who have contributed other source code, documentation and good bug reports.
Thanks to all those who sent money and offered help.
Thanks also to all those who support us by ordering manuals, distribution tapes, diskettes and CD-ROMs.
The creation of this bulletin is our way of thanking all who have expressed interest in what we are doing.
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