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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 September 15, 1998
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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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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 * Compilers::
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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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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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100 @item
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102 Web.
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104 @item
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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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117 @item
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118 Help develop XmHTML.
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120 @item
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121 Help develop software to emulate Windows NT on top of GNU systems.
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122 For example, you could help work on Willows Twin.
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124 @item
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125 Implement the Kermit data transfer protocol. (See below.)
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127 @ignore This is being done (Harmony)
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129 Develop a free compatible replacement for Qt, a GUI toolkit library. Qt
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130 is not free software, because users are prohibited from distributing
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131 modified versions. Thus, Qt cannot be included in a free operating
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132 system (adding it would make the system as a whole non-free).
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134 But some developers are writing free applications that use Qt and cannot
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135 run without it. These programs, although free software, are useless for
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136 free operating systems because there is no way to make them run.
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138 This is leading to a serious problem, and a free replacement for Qt is
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139 the only solution. Hence the high degree of urgency of this project.
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140 @end ignore
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143 Develop a free replacement for a semi-free program such as Xv or POV.
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144 These semi-free programs are less restricted than typical proprietary
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145 programs, but too restricted to be part of any free operating system.
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250 communicating across gateways.
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261 HURD. This protocol is an offshoot of SMB.
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265 @chapter Extensions to Existing GNU Software
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270 distribution.
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273 Interface GDB to Guile, so that users can write debugging commands in
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274 Scheme. This would also make it possible to write, in Scheme, a
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291 Finish the partially-implemented C interpreter project.
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295 OpenStep specification.
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312 @item
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316 @email{tron@@veritas.com} about this.
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321 Enhanced cross-reference browsing tools. (We now have something at
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323 @code{ctrace}. (Some people are now working on this project.)
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327 @chapter X Windows Projects
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334 A music playing and editing system. This should work with LilyPond, a
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335 GNU program for music typesetting.
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338 An ephemeris program to replace xephem (which is, alas, too restricted
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339 to qualify as free software).
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341 @item
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342 A program to edit dance notation (such as labanotation) and display
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346 Make sure the Vibrant toolkit works with LessTif instead of Motif.
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348 @item
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352 A program for graphic morphing of scanned photographs.
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355 @node Encryption Projects
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356 @chapter Encryption Projects
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358 These projects need to be written outside the US by people who are not
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359 US citizens, to avoid problems with US export control law.
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361 @itemize @bullet
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363 A free library for public-key encryption.
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364
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365 This library should use the Diffie-Helman algorithm for public key
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366 encryption, not the RSA algorithm, because the Diffie-Helman patent in
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367 the US expired in 1997. This library can probably be developed from
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368 the code for the GNU Privacy Guard (now in development).
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370 @item
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371 A free secure telnet program more or less like ssh/sshd. Since this
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372 requires a public key encryption algorithm, it should be based
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373 on the library above.
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375 This program should follow the draft standard for ssh. As always, it
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376 cannot implement the RSA algorithm, but must instead support the
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377 alternatives that will be patent-free in late 1997. It cannot support
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378 IDEA, but can use triple-DES and/or Blowfish or other non-patented
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379 alternatives.
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381 @item
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382 Free software for doing secure commercial transactions on the web.
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383 This too needs public key encryption.
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384 @end itemize
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386 A free replacement for PGP is no longer listed here because the GNU
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387 Privacy Guard will do that job.
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388
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389 @node Other Projects
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390 @chapter Other Projects
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391
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392 If you think of others that should be added, please
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393 send them to @email{gnu@@gnu.org}.
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395 @itemize @bullet
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397 @item
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398 A program to reformat HTML source to make it easier to read as HTML.
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401 A simple PC BIOS. On most new PCs, the BIOS is stored in writable
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402 memory (misleadingly known as ``flash ROM''). In order to have a wholly
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403 free system on these PCs, we need a free BIOS.
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405 This task is made simpler by the fact that this BIOS need only support
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406 enough features to enable a boot-loader such as LILO or GRUB to finish
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407 loading the kernel. Neither Linux nor Mach actually uses the BIOS once
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408 it starts up. Also, it is not absolutely necessary to do all the many
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409 diagnostics that an ordinary BIOS does (though it would be useful to do
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410 some of them). However, there may be a need to configure certain data
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411 in the computer in a way that is specific to each model of computer.
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413 @item
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414 A free program that can transfer files on a serial line
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415 using the same protocol that Kermit uses.
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417 @item
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424 A general ledger program, including support for accounts payable,
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425 account receivables, payroll, inventory control, order processing, etc.
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427 @item
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428 A teleconferencing program which does the job of CU-SeeMe (which is,
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429 alas, not free software).
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432 A free replacement for Glimpse, which is not free software.
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434 @item
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435 A program to typeset C code for printing, to make it easier to read on
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436 paper. For ideas on what to do, see the book,
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438 @display
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439 Human Factors and Typography for More Readable Programs,
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440 Ronald M. Baecker and Aaron Marcus,
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441 Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-10745-7
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442 @end display
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444 But you don't have to do exactly what they propose.
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446 @ignore
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447 @c This is now being worked on -- rms, 22 June 1998
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448 @item
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449 A program to convert Microsoft Word documents to text/enriched, TeX,
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450 LaTeX, Texinfo, or some other format that free software can edit.
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451 @end ignore
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453 @ignore
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454 @c People are helping the developer of siff release it as free software.
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456 @item
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457 A free replacement for siff (sometimes called sif). This would be a
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458 program to find similar files in a large file system, ``similar''
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459 meaning that the files contain a significant number of common substrings
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460 that are of a certain size or greater. You can find some information
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461 about siff (which is, unfortunately, not free software) at
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462 @uref{ftp://ftp.cs.arizona.edu/reports/1993/TR93-33.ps.Z}.
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463 @end ignore
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465 @ignore
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466 @c This is being developed -- rms, 3 May 1998
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467 @item
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468 A free replacement for the semi-free Qt library.
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469 @end ignore
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471 @item
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472 High-quality music compression software.
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473 (Talk with @email{phr@@netcom.com} for relevant suggestions.)
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474
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475 @item
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476 A program to play sound distributed in ``Real Audio'' format.
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477
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478 @item
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479 A program to generate ``Real Audio'' format from audio input.
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480
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481 @item
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482 Programs to handle audio in RTSP format.
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483
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484 @ignore @c Software patents have made this domain off limits to free software.
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485 @item
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486 An MPEG III audio encoder/decoder (but it is necessary to check, first,
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487 whether patents make this impossible).
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488 @end ignore
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489
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490 @item
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491 Speech-generation programs (there is a program from Brown U that you
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495 Speech-recognition programs (single-speaker, disconnected speech is sufficient).
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496
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497 @ignore Being done
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498 @item
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499 A program to display text word by word, always showing just one word at
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500 a time. This method permits much faster reading than ordinary text
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501 display. If you want to work on this, contact @email{stutz@@dsl.org} to
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502 learn more.
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503 @end ignore
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505 @item
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506 More scientific mathematical subroutines.
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507 (A clone of SPSS is being written already.)
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513 A scientific data collection and processing tool,
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514 perhaps something like Scientific Workbench and/or Khoros,
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515
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516 @item
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517 Software to replace card catalogues in libraries.
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520 A project-scheduling package that accepts a list of project sub-tasks
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521 with their interdependencies, and generates Gantt charts and Pert charts
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522 and all the other standard project progress reports.
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523
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524 @item
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525 Grammar and style checking programs.
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526
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528 A translator from Scheme to C.
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531 A fast emulator for the i386 which works by translating
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532 machine instructions into the machine language of the host machine.
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533 (Support for emulation of other machines would enhance the program
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534 but might make it much more difficult.)
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536 @item
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537 A map display or geographic information system.
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538
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539 @item
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540 Optical character recognition programs; especially if suitable for
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541 scanning documents with multiple fonts and capturing font info as well
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542 as character codes. Work is being done on this, but more help is needed.
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545 A program to scan a line drawing and convert it to Postscript.
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548 A program to recognize handwriting.
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549
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550 @item
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551 A pen based interface.
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552
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554 CAD software, such as a vague imitation of Autocad.
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555
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556 @item
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557 A program to receive data from a serial-line tap to facilitate the
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558 reverse-engineering of communication protocols.
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559 @end itemize
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561 @node Compilers
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562 @chapter Compilers for Other Batch Languages
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564 Volunteers are needed to write parsers/front ends for languages such as
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565 Algol 60, Algol 68, PL/I, Cobol, Fortran 90, or whatever, to be
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566 used with the code generation phases of the GNU C compiler.
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567
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568 @c Fortran status is here so gnu@gnu.org and the volunteer coordinators
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569 @c don't have to answer the question -len
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570 You can get the status of the Fortran front end with this command:
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571
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572 @example
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573 finger -l fortran@@gnu.org
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574 @end example
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576 @node Games and Recreations
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577 @chapter Games and Recreations
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579 Video-oriented games that work with the X window system.
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580
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581 @itemize @bullet
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582 @item
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583 Empire (there is a free version but it needs upgrading)
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585 @item
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586 An ``empire builder'' system that makes it easy to write various kinds of
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587 simulation games.
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588
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589 @item
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590 Improve GnuGo, which is not yet very sophisticated.
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591
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592 @item
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593 A Hierarchical Task Network package which can be used
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594 to program play the computer's side in various strategic games.
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596 @item
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597 Write imitations of some popular video games:
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599 @itemize -
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601 Space war, Asteroids, Pong, Columns.
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603 Defending cities from missiles.
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605 Plane shoots at lots of other planes, tanks, etc.
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606 @item
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607 Wizard fights fanciful monsters.
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609 A golf game.
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610 @ignore Being done by jhall1@isd.net
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612 Program a robot by sticking building blocks together,
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614 @end ignore
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616 Biomorph evolution (as in Scientific American and @cite{The Blind
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617 Watchmaker}).
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619 A program to display effects of moving at relativistic speeds.
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620 @end itemize
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621 @end itemize
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623 We do not need @code{rogue}, as we have @code{hack}.
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625 @contents
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627 @bye
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628 Local variables:
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629 update-date-leading-regexp: "@c This date is automagically updated when you save this file:\n@set lastupdate "
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630 update-date-trailing-regexp: ""
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631 eval: (load "/gd/gnuorg/update-date.el")
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632 eval: (add-hook 'write-file-hooks 'update-date)
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633 End: