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2 Getting GNU Software, 21 Mar 93 2 Getting GNU Software, 14 May 94
3 Copyright (C) 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 3 Copyright (C) 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1994 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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10 * GNU and the Free Software Foundation 13 * GNU and the Free Software Foundation
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12 Project GNU is organized as part of the Free Software Foundation, Inc. 15 Project GNU is organized as part of the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
13 The Free Software Foundation has the following goals: 1) to create GNU 16 The Free Software Foundation has the following goals: 1) to create GNU
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60 64
61 * Available Software 65 * Available Software
62 66
63 ** GNU Emacs 67 ** GNU Emacs
64 68
65 The GNU Emacs distribution includes: 69 The GNU Emacs distribution includes:
66 - manual source in TeX format. 70 - manual source in TeX format.
67 - an enhanced regex (regular expression) library. 71 - an enhanced regex (regular expression) library.
68 72
69 See `/pub/gnu/GNUinfo/MACHINES' for the status of porting Emacs to 73 See files `/pub/gnu/GNUinfo/MACHINES*' for the status of porting Emacs
70 various machines and operating systems. 74 to various machines and operating systems.
71 75
72 ** C Scheme - a block structured dialect of LISP. 76 ** C Scheme - a block structured dialect of LISP.
73 77
74 The Free Software Foundation distributes C Scheme for the MIT Scheme 78 The Free Software Foundation distributes C Scheme for the MIT Scheme
75 Project on it tapes. A partial ftp distribution can be found on 79 Project on its Scheme tapes. The full ftp distribution can be gotten
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86 ** Other GNU Software 89 ** Other GNU Software
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