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1 \input texinfo @c -*-texinfo-*-
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2 @c %**start of header
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3 @setfilename tasks.info
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4 @settitle GNU Task List
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5 @c This date is automagically updated when you save this file:
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6 @set lastupdate January 6, 1999
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11 @titlepage
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12 @title GNU Task List
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13 @author Free Software Foundation
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14 @author last updated @value{lastupdate}
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17 @ifinfo
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18 @node Top, Intro, (dir), (dir)
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19 @top GNU Task List
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21 This file is updated automatically from @file{tasks.texi}, which was
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22 last updated on @value{lastupdate}.
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26 * Intro::
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27 * Highest Priority::
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28 * Documentation::
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29 * Unix-Related Projects::
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30 * Kernel Projects::
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31 * Extensions::
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32 * X Windows Projects::
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33 * Encryption Projects::
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34 * Other Projects::
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35 * Languages::
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36 * Games and Recreations::
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37 @end menu
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39 @node Intro
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40 @chapter About the GNU Task List
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42 If you did not obtain this file directly from the GNU project and
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44 from any GNU FTP host in directory @file{/pub/gnu/tasks/}. The task
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45 list is available there in several different formats: @file{tasks.text},
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46 @file{tasks.texi}, @file{tasks.info}, and @file{tasks.dvi}. The GNU
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49 The task list is also available on the GNU World Wide Web server:
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50 @uref{http://www.gnu.org/prep/tasks_toc.html}.
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54 send you the GNU coding standards.
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56 Because of the natural tendency for most volunteers to write programming
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57 tools or programming languages, we have a comparative shortage of
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58 applications useful for non-programmer users. Therefore, we ask you to
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59 consider writing such a program.
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61 Typically, a new program that does a completely new job advances
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62 the GNU project, and the free software community, more than an
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63 improvement to an existing program.
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65 Typically, new features or new programs advance the free software
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66 community more, in the long run, than porting existing programs. One
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67 reason is that portable new features and programs benefit people on many
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68 platforms, not just one. At the same time, there tend to be many
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69 volunteers for porting---so your help will be more valuable in other
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70 areas, where volunteers are more scarce.
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72 Typically, it is more useful to extend a program in functionality than
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73 to improve performance. Users who use the new functionality will
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74 appreciate it very much, if they use it; but even when they benefit from
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75 a performance improvement, they may not consider it very important.
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77 @node Highest Priority
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78 @chapter Highest Priority
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80 This task list mentions a large number of tasks that would be more or
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81 less useful. With luck, at least one of them will inspire you to start
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82 writing. It's better for you to work on any task that inspires you than
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83 not write free software at all.
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85 But if you would like to work on what we need most, here is a list of
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86 high priority projects.
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88 @itemize @bullet
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89 @item
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90 If you are good at writing documentation, please do that.
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92 @item
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93 If you are very good at C programming and interested in kernels, you can
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94 help develop the GNU HURD, the kernel for the GNU system. Please have a
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95 look at @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd.html}, and
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96 then get a copy of the latest HURD task list from:
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100 @item
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101 @uref{http://www.gnu.org/prep/tasks.hurd.html}, via the World Wide
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102 Web.
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104 @item
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105 @uref{ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/tasks/tasks.hurd}, via anonymous FTP.
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107 @item
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108 @email{gnu@@gnu.org} via e-mail.
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110 @end itemize
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112 @item
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113 If you are a Scheme fan, you can help develop Guile. Please have a look
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114 at the URL @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/guile.html}
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115 and then contact the Guile developers at @email{guile@@gnu.org}.
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117 @item
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119 making use of a free data base system and the GTK toolkit.
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122 Help develop XmHTML. See @uref{http://www.xs4all.nl/~ripley/XmHTML/}.
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125 Help develop software to emulate Windows NT on top of GNU systems.
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126 For example, you could help work on Willows Twin.
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127 See @uref{http://www.willows.com/}.
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130 Implement the Kermit data transfer protocol. (See below.)
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132 @ignore This is being done (Harmony)
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133 @item
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134 Develop a free compatible replacement for Qt, a GUI toolkit library. Qt
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135 is not free software, because users are prohibited from distributing
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136 modified versions. Thus, Qt cannot be included in a free operating
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137 system (adding it would make the system as a whole non-free).
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139 But some developers are writing free applications that use Qt and cannot
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140 run without it. These programs, although free software, are useless for
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141 free operating systems because there is no way to make them run.
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143 This is leading to a serious problem, and a free replacement for Qt is
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144 the only solution. Hence the high degree of urgency of this project.
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145 @end ignore
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291 distribution.
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305 which we would also like to have rewritten in Scheme.
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308 Finish the partially-implemented C interpreter project.
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310 @item
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312 OpenStep specification.
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314 @item
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316 was last recompiled; then recompile any file if its rule in the makefile
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317 has changed.
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319 @item
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333 @email{tron@@veritas.com} about this.
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335 Smail also needs a new chief maintainer.
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336
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338 Enhanced cross-reference browsing tools. (We now have something at
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339 about the level of @code{cxref}.) We also could use something like
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340 @code{ctrace}. (Some people are now working on this project.)
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343 @node X Windows Projects
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344 @chapter X Windows Projects
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346 @itemize @bullet
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351 A package that emulates the API of Visual C++, but operates on top of
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352 X11. It need not match the screen appearance of Visual C++. Instead,
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353 it would be best to use GTK, so as to give coherence with GNOME.
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355 @item
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356 A compatible replacement for Visual Basic, running on top of X11.
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357 It need not match the screen appearance of Visual C++. Instead,
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358 it would be best to use GTK, so as to give coherence with GNOME.
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360 @item
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361 A music playing and editing system. This should work with LilyPond, a
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362 GNU program for music typesetting.
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364 @item
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365 An ear-training program for students of music.
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367 @item
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368 An ephemeris program to replace xephem (which is, alas, too restricted
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369 to qualify as free software).
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371 @item
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372 A program to edit dance notation (such as labanotation) and display
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373 dancers moving on the screen.
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375 @item
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376 Make sure the Vibrant toolkit works with LessTif instead of Motif.
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378 @item
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379 A program to display and edit Hypercard stacks.
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381 @item
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382 A program for graphic morphing of scanned photographs.
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384 @item
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385 Software for designing and printing business cards.
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386 @end itemize
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388 @node Encryption Projects
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389 @chapter Encryption Projects
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391 These projects need to be written outside the US by people who are not
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392 US citizens, to avoid problems with US export control law.
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394 @itemize @bullet
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396 A free library for public-key encryption.
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397
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398 This library should use the Diffie-Helman algorithm for public key
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399 encryption, not the RSA algorithm, because the Diffie-Helman patent in
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400 the US expired in 1997. This library can probably be developed from
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401 the code for the GNU Privacy Guard (now in development).
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402
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403 @item
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404 An implementation of SSLv3 (more precisely, TLSv1) which is patent-free
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405 (uses the non-RSA algorithms) and has distribution terms compatible with
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406 the GNU GPL. We know of a GPL-covered implemention of a version of SSL
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407 that you can use as a starting point.
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409 @item
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410 Free software for doing secure commercial transactions on the web.
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411 This too needs public key encryption.
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412 @end itemize
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414 The projects to provide free replacements for PGP and SSH are no longer
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415 listed here, because projects to do those jobs are well under way.
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417 @node Other Projects
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418 @chapter Other Projects
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419
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420 If you think of others that should be added, please
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421 send them to @email{gnu@@gnu.org}.
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422
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423 @itemize @bullet
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424 @item
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425 A simple PC BIOS. On most new PCs, the BIOS is stored in writable
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426 memory (misleadingly known as ``flash ROM''). In order to have a wholly
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427 free system on these PCs, we need a free BIOS.
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429 This task is made simpler by the fact that this BIOS need only support
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430 enough features to enable a boot-loader such as LILO or GRUB to finish
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431 loading the kernel. Neither Linux nor Mach actually uses the BIOS once
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432 it starts up. Also, it is not absolutely necessary to do all the many
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433 diagnostics that an ordinary BIOS does (though it would be useful to do
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434 some of them). However, there may be a need to configure certain data
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435 in the computer in a way that is specific to each model of computer.
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437 @item
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438 A free program that can transfer files on a serial line
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439 using the same protocol that Kermit uses.
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441 @item
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442 An imitation of Page Maker or Ventura Publisher.
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445 An imitation of @code{dbase2} or @code{dbase3} (How dbased!)
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448 A general ledger program, including support for accounts payable,
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449 account receivables, payroll, inventory control, order processing, etc.
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451 @item
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452 A teleconferencing program which does the job of CU-SeeMe (which is,
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453 alas, not free software).
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456 A free ICQ-compatible server program. (The ICQ server itself is not
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459 @item
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460 A free replacement for Glimpse, which is not free software.
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462 @item
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463 Software for desktop publishing. We are extending Emacs into a WYSIWYG
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464 word processor, to handle primarily linear text; what this item proposes
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465 is software focused on page layout.
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466
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467 @item
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468 A program to typeset C code for printing, to make it easier to read on
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469 paper. For ideas on what to do, see the book,
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471 @display
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472 Human Factors and Typography for More Readable Programs,
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473 Ronald M. Baecker and Aaron Marcus,
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474 Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-10745-7
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475 @end display
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476
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477 But you don't have to do exactly what they propose.
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479 @item
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480 A program to reformat HTML source to make it easier to read as HTML.
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481
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482 @ignore
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483 @c This is now being worked on -- rms, 22 June 1998
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484 @item
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485 A program to convert Microsoft Word documents to text/enriched, TeX,
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486 LaTeX, Texinfo, or some other format that free software can edit.
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487 @end ignore
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488
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489 @ignore
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490 @c People are helping the developer of siff release it as free software.
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491
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492 @item
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493 A free replacement for siff (sometimes called sif). This would be a
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494 program to find similar files in a large file system, ``similar''
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495 meaning that the files contain a significant number of common substrings
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496 that are of a certain size or greater. You can find some information
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497 about siff (which is, unfortunately, not free software) at
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498 @uref{ftp://ftp.cs.arizona.edu/reports/1993/TR93-33.ps.Z}.
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499 @end ignore
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501 @ignore
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502 @c This is being developed -- rms, 3 May 1998
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503 @item
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504 A free replacement for the semi-free Qt library.
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505 @end ignore
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506
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507 @item
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508 High-quality music compression software.
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509 (Talk with @email{phr@@netcom.com} for relevant suggestions.)
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510
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511 @item
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512 A program to play sound distributed in ``Real Audio'' format.
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513
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514 @item
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515 A program to generate ``Real Audio'' format from audio input.
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516
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517 @item
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518 Programs to handle audio in RTSP format.
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519
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520 @ignore @c Software patents have made this domain off limits to free software.
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521 @item
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522 An MPEG III audio encoder/decoder (but it is necessary to check, first,
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523 whether patents make this impossible).
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524 @end ignore
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525
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526 @item
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527 Speech-generation programs (there is a program from Brown U that you
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529
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531 Speech-recognition programs (single-speaker, disconnected speech is sufficient).
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532
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533 @item
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534 A braille translation and formatting system which can convert marked up
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535 documents into braille. This should let the user customize the braille
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536 translation rules; it would be good to divide it into a
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537 device-independent part plus drivers. Contact Jason White,
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538 @email{jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU}.
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539
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540 @ignore Being done
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541 @item
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542 A program to display text word by word, always showing just one word at
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543 a time. This method permits much faster reading than ordinary text
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544 display. If you want to work on this, contact @email{stutz@@dsl.org} to
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545 learn more.
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546 @end ignore
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547
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548 @item
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549 More scientific mathematical subroutines.
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550 (A clone of SPSS is being written already.)
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552 @item
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553 Statistical tools.
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556 A scientific data collection and processing tool,
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557 perhaps something like Scientific Workbench and/or Khoros,
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558
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559 @item
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560 Software to replace card catalogues in libraries.
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562 @item
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563 A package for editing genealogical records conveniently.
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564 This could perhaps be done as a Gnome program, or perhaps
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565 as an Emacs extentsion.
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566
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567 @item
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568 A project-scheduling package that accepts a list of project sub-tasks
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569 with their interdependencies, and generates Gantt charts and Pert charts
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570 and all the other standard project progress reports.
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571
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572 @item
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573 Grammar and style checking programs.
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575 @item
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576 A program to calculate nutritional information from recipes.
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577
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578 There is a free (unambiguously public domain) database of nutritional
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579 information compiled by the USDA at
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580 @url{http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp}.
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582 @item
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583 A fast emulator for the i386 which works by translating
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584 machine instructions into the machine language of the host machine.
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585 (Support for emulation of other machines would enhance the program
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586 but might make it much more difficult.)
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588 @item
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589 Optical character recognition programs; especially if suitable for
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590 scanning documents with multiple fonts and capturing font info as well
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591 as character codes. Work is being done on this, but more help is needed.
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593 @item
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594 A program to scan a line drawing and convert it to Postscript.
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597 A program to recognize handwriting.
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600 A pen based interface.
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602 @item
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603 CAD software, such as a vague imitation of Autocad.
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604
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605 @item
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606 A program to receive data from a serial-line tap to facilitate the
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607 reverse-engineering of communication protocols.
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608 @end itemize
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610 @node Languages
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611 @chapter Programming Languages
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613 Volunteers are needed to write parsers/front ends for languages such as
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614 Algol 60, Algol 68, PL/I, Cobol, Fortran 90, or whatever, to be
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615 used with the code generation phases of the GNU C compiler.
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617 @c Fortran status is here so gnu@gnu.org and the volunteer coordinators
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618 @c don't have to answer the question -len
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619 You can get the status of the Fortran front end with this command:
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621 @example
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622 finger -l fortran@@gnu.org
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623 @end example
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625 We would like to have translators from various languages into Scheme.
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626 These languages include TCL, Python, Perl, Java, Javascript, and Rexx.
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628 We would like to have an implementation of Clipper, perhaps a GCC front
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629 end, and perhaps a translator into Scheme.
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631 @node Games and Recreations
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632 @chapter Games and Recreations
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634 Video-oriented games that work with the X window system.
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635
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636 @itemize @bullet
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637 @item
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638 Empire (there is a free version but it needs upgrading)
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641 An ``empire builder'' system that makes it easy to write various kinds of
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642 simulation games.
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644 @item
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645 Improve GnuGo, which is not yet very sophisticated.
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647 @item
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648 Network servers and clients for board and card games for which such
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649 software does not yet exist.
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651 @item
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652 A Hierarchical Task Network package which can be used
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653 to program play the computer's side in various strategic games.
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655 @item
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656 Write imitations of some popular video games:
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658 @itemize -
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660 Space war, Asteroids, Pong, Columns.
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662 Defending cities from missiles.
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664 Plane shoots at lots of other planes, tanks, etc.
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666 Wizard fights fanciful monsters.
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668 A golf game.
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669 @ignore Being done by jhall1@isd.net
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671 Program a robot by sticking building blocks together,
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672 then watch it explore a world.
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673 @end ignore
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675 Biomorph evolution (as in Scientific American and @cite{The Blind
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676 Watchmaker}).
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677 @item
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678 A program to display effects of moving at relativistic speeds.
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684 @contents
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686 @bye
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687 Local variables:
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688 update-date-leading-regexp: "@c This date is automagically updated when you save this file:\n@set lastupdate "
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689 update-date-trailing-regexp: ""
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690 eval: (load "/gd/gnuorg/update-date.el")
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691 eval: (add-hook 'write-file-hooks 'update-date)
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692 End: