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| author | Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org> |
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| date | Mon, 16 Oct 2000 12:27:33 +0000 |
| parents | 8e57189d61b4 |
| children | bb18ec7f4218 |
| files | etc/3B-MAXMEM etc/AIX.DUMP etc/ChangeLog etc/FTP etc/SUN-SUPPORT etc/tasks.texi lisp/ChangeLog |
| diffstat | 7 files changed, 136 insertions(+), 799 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/etc/3B-MAXMEM Mon Oct 16 12:27:09 2000 +0000 +++ /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 @@ -1,75 +0,0 @@ -Date: Mon, 16 Feb 87 15:04:41 EST -From: katinsky@gauss.rutgers.edu (David Katinsky) -To: rms@prep.ai.mit.edu -Subject: 3b2 procedure to raise MAXMEM - -Below is the procedure I followed to allow enough memory for GnuEmacs to run -on my 3b2/400. The end result of this is that a process can snarf up to 2Mb -of memory. This can be a bit dangerous on a 2Mb machine, but I tried it and -it worked ok. - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - -In the simplest case, these are the procedures to reconfigure a 3bx kernel. - - - -1] cd /etc/master.d - -`ls` shows the files to be: - -README ctc* hdelog idisk ipc iuart kernel mau -mem msg ports* prf sem shm stubs sxt -sys xt - -2] Edit the file which contains the parameter[s] you wish to change. -In the following excerpt from /etc/master.d/kernel the value MAXMEM -was raised from 256 to 1024. - -In V.3.0 and later releases, the parameter in question is MAXUMEM -instead of MAXMEM. - - - * - * The following entries form the tunable parameter table. - * - - - NCALL = 30 - NPROC = 60 - NTEXT = 58 - NCLIST = 188 - * maxmem is number of pages (2K) was 256 --dmk - MAXMEM = 1024 - MAXUP = 25 - * hashbuf must be a power of 2 - NHBUF = 128 - NPBUF = 8 - -3] cd /boot - -4] mkboot -k KERNEL - -5] shutdown -i5 -g0 -y - -This will take the machine down and bring it back up into firmware -mode. When you see that the machine has reached this state, type the -firmware password (default=mcp). The machine will ask for the name of -a program to execute. At this prompt enter /etc/system . The machine -should start to boot and display its configuration data. - - - -8701271222 dmk - - [katinsky@topaz.rutgers.edu] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - -I do not feel that having the default firmware password is a -problem... but if you wish to edit it out, feel free. - - dmk - -
--- a/etc/AIX.DUMP Mon Oct 16 12:27:09 2000 +0000 +++ /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 @@ -1,221 +0,0 @@ -The following text was written by someone at IBM to describe an older -version of the code for dumping on AIX. It does NOT apply to -the current version of Emacs. It is included in case someone -is curious. - - -I (rms) couldn't understand the code, and I can't fully understand -this text either. I rewrote the code to use the same basic -principles, as far as I understood them, but more cleanly. This -rewritten code does not always work. In fact, the basic method -seems to be intrinsically flawed. - -Since then, someone else implemented a different way of dumping on -the RS/6000, which does seem to work. None of the following -applies to the way Emacs now dumps on the 6000. However, the -current method fails to use shared libraries. Anyone who might be -interested in trying to resurrect the previous method might still -find the following information useful. - - -It seems that the IBM dumping code was simply set up to detect when -the dumped data cannot be used, and in that case to act approximately -as if CANNOT_DUMP had been defined all along. (This is buried in -paragraph 1.) It seems simpler just to define CANNOT_DUMP, since -Emacs is not set up to decide at run time whether there is dumping or -not, and doing so correctly would be a lot of work. - -Note that much of the other information, such as the name and format -of the dumped data file, has been changed. - - - --rms - - - - A different approach has been taken to implement the -"dump/load" feature of GNU Emacs for AIX 3.1. Traditionally the -unexec function creates a new a.out executable file which contains -preloaded Lisp code. Executing the new a.out file (normally called -xemacs) provides rapid startup since the standard suite of Lisp code -is preloaded as part of the executable file. - - AIX 3.1 architecture precludes the use of this technique -because the dynamic loader cannot guarantee a fixed starting location -for the process data section. The loader loads all shared library -data BEFORE process data. When a shared library changes its data -space, the process initial data section address (_data) will change -and all global process variables are automatically relocated to new -addresses. This invalidates the "dumped" Emacs executable which has -data addresses which are not relocatable and now corrupt. Emacs would -fail to execute until rebuilt with the new libraries. - - To circumvent the dynamic loader feature of AIX 3.1, the dump process -has been modified as follows: - - 1) A new executable file is NOT created. Instead, both pure and - impure data are saved by the dump function and automatically - reloaded during process initialization. If any of the saved data - is unavailable or invalid, loadup.el will be automatically loaded. - - 2) Pure data is defined as a shared memory segment and attached - automatically as read-only data during initialization. This - allows the pure data to be a shared resource among all Emacs - processes. The shared memory segment size is PURESIZE bytes. - If the shared memory segment is unavailable or invalid, a new - shared memory segment is created and the impure data save file - is destroyed, forcing loadup.el to be reloaded. - - 3) The ipc key used to create and access Emacs shared memory is - SHMKEY and can be overridden by the environment symbol EMACSSHMKEY. - Only one ipc key is allowed per system. The environment symbol - is provided in case the default ipc key has already been used. - - 4) Impure data is written to the ../bin/.emacs.data file by the - dump function. This file contains the process' impure data - at the moment of load completion. During Emacs initialization, - the process' data section is expanded and overwritten - with the .emacs.data file contents. - - The following are software notes concerning the GNU Emacs dump function under AIX 3.1: - - 1) All of the new dump/load code is activated by the #ifdef SHMKEY - conditional. - - 2) The automatic loading of loadup.el does NOT cause the dump function - to be performed. Therefore once the pure/impure data is discarded, - someone must remake Emacs to create the saved data files. This - should only be necessary when Emacs is first installed or whenever - AIX is upgraded. - - 3) Emacs will exit with an error if executed in a non-X environment - and the dump function was performed within a X window. Therefore - the dump function should always be performed in a non-X - environment unless the X environment will ALWAYS be available. - - 4) Emacs only maintains the lower 24 bits of any data address. The - remaining upper 8 bits are reset by the XPNTR macro whenever any - Lisp object is referenced. This poses a serious problem because - pure data is stored in segment 3 (shared memory) and impure data - is stored in segment 2 (data). To reset the upper 8 address bits - correctly, XPNTR must guess as to which type of data is represented - by the lower 24 address bits. The technique chosen is based upon - the fact that pure data offsets in segment 3 range from - 0 -> PURESIZE-1, which are relatively small offsets. Impure data - offsets in segment 2 are relatively large (> 0x40000) because they - must follow all shared library data. Therefore XPNTR adds segment - 3 to each data offset which is small (below PURESIZE) and adds - segment 2 to all other offsets. This algorithm will remain valid - as long as a) pure data size remains relatively small and b) process - data is loaded after shared library data. - - To eliminate this guessing game, Emacs must preserve the 32-bit - address and add additional data object overhead for the object type - and garbage collection mark bit. - - 5) The data section written to .emacs.data is divided into three - areas as shown below. The file header contains four character - pointers which are used during automatic data loading. The file's - contents will only be used if the first three addresses match - their counterparts in the current process. The fourth address is - the new data segment address required to hold all of the preloaded - data. - - - .emacs.data file format - - +---------------------------------------+ \ - | address of _data | \ - +---------------------------------------+ \ - | address of _end | \ - +---------------------------------------+ file header - | address of initial sbrk(0) | / - +---------------------------------------+ / - | address of final sbrk(0) | / - +---------------------------------------+ / - \ \ - \ \ - all data to be loaded from - _data to _end - \ \ - \ \ - +---------------------------------------+ - \ \ - \ \ - all data to be loaded from - initial to final sbrk(0) - \ \ - +---------------------------------------+ - - - Sections two and three contain the preloaded data which is - restored at locations _data and initial sbrk(0) respectively. - - The reason two separate sections are needed is that process - initialization allocates data (via malloc) prior to main() - being called. Therefore _end is several kbytes lower than - the address returned by an initial sbrk(0). This creates a - hole in the process data space and malloc will abort if this - region is overwritten during the load function. - - One further complication with the malloc'd space is that it - is partially empty and must be "consumed" so that data space - malloc'd in the future is not assigned to this region. The malloc - function distributed with Emacs anticipates this problem but the - AIX 3.1 version does not. Therefore, repeated malloc calls are - needed to exhaust this initial malloc space. How do you know - when malloc has exhausted its free memory? You don't! So the - code must repeatedly call malloc for each buffer size and - detect when a new memory page has been allocated. Once the new - memory page is allocated, you can calculate the number of free - buffers in that page and request exactly that many more. Future - malloc requests will now be added at the top of a new memory page. - - One final point - the initial sbrk(0) is the value of sbrk(0) - after all of the above malloc hacking has been performed. - - - The following Emacs dump/load issues need to be addressed: - - 1) Loadup.el exits with an error message because the xemacs and - emacs-xxx files are not created during the dump function. - - Loadup.el should be changed to check for the new .emacs.data - file. - - 2) Dump will only support one .emacs.data file for the entire - system. This precludes the ability to allow each user to - define his/her own "dumped" Emacs. - - Add an environment symbol to override the default .emacs.data - path. - - 3) An error message "error in init file" is displayed out of - startup.el when the dumped Emacs is invoked by a non-root user. - Although all of the preloaded Lisp code is present, the important - purify-flag has not been set back to Qnil - precluding the - loading of any further Lisp code until the flag is manually - reset. - - The problem appears to be an access violation which will go - away if the read-write access modes to all of the files are - changed to rw-. - - 4) In general, all file access modes should be changed from - rw-r--r-- to rw-rw-rw-. They are currently setup to match - standard AIX access modes. - - 5) The dump function is not invoked when the automatic load of - loadup.el is performed. - - Perhaps the command arguments array should be expanded with - "dump" added to force an automatic dump. - - 6) The automatic initialization function alloc_shm will delete - the shared memory segment and .emacs.data file if the "dump" - command argument is found in ANY argument position. The - dump function will only take place in loadup.el if "dump" - is the third or fourth command argument. - - Change alloc_shm to live by loadup.el rules. -
--- a/etc/ChangeLog Mon Oct 16 12:27:09 2000 +0000 +++ b/etc/ChangeLog Mon Oct 16 12:27:33 2000 +0000 @@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ * tasks.texi: Updated to the version from /gd/gnuorg. + * FTP: Refer to the GNU web site. + 2000-10-13 John Wiegley <johnw@gnu.org> * NEWS: Added a note about Eshell.
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--- a/etc/SUN-SUPPORT Mon Oct 16 12:27:09 2000 +0000 +++ /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 @@ -1,210 +0,0 @@ -NOTE: the Free Software Foundation agreed to put this file, and the -programs it describes, into the Emacs distribution ONLY on the -condition that we would not lift a finger to maintain them! We are -willing to *pass along* support for Sun windows, but we are not -willing to let it distract us from what we are trying to do. If you -have complaints or suggestions about Sun windows support, send them to -peck@sun.com, who is the maintainer. - - -The interface between GNU Emacs and Sun windows consists of the program -etc/emacstool, the Lisp programs lisp/sun-*.el and lisp/term/sun.el, -and the C source file src/sunfns.c. It is documented with a man page, -etc/emacstool.1. - -To enable use of these files and programs, define the configuration -switch HAVE_SUN_WINDOWS in src/config.h before compiling Emacs. -The definition of HAVE_SUN_WINDOWS must precede the #include m-sun3.h -or #include m-sun4.h. -If you must change PURESIZE, do so after the #include m-sun3.h - -This software is based on SunView for Sun UNIX 4.2 Release 3.2, -and will not work "as is" on previous releases, eg 3.0 or 3.1. - -Using Emacstool with GNU Emacs: - - The GNU Emacs files lisp/term/sun.el, lisp/sun-mouse.el, -lisp/sun-fns.el, and src/sunfns.c provide emacs support for the -Emacstool and function keys. If your terminal type is SUN (that is, -if your environment variable TERM is set to SUN), then Emacs will -automatically load the file lisp/term/sun.el. This, in turn, will -ensure that sun-mouse.el is autoloaded when any mouse events are -detected. It is suggested that sun-mouse and sun-fns be -included in your site-init.el file, so that they will always be loaded -when running on a Sun workstation. [Increase PURESIZE to 154000]. - - Support for the Sun function keys requires disconnecting the standard -Emacs command Meta-[. Therefore, the function keys are supported only -if you do (setq sun-esc-bracket t) in your .emacs file. - - The file src/sunfns.c defines several useful functions for emacs on -the Sun. Among these are procedures to pop-up SunView menus, put and -get from the SunView selection [STUFF] buffer, and a procedure for -changing the cursor icon. If you want to define cursor icons, try -using the functions in lisp/sun-cursors.el. - - The file lisp/sun-mouse.el includes a mass of software for defining -bindings for mouse events. Any function can be called or any form -evaluated as a result of a mouse event. If you want a pop-up menu, -your function can call sun-menu-evaluate. This will bring up a -SunView walking menu of your choice. - - Use the macro (defmenu menu-name &rest menu-items) to define menu -objects. Each menu item is a cons of ("string" . VALUE), VALUE is -evaluated when the string item is picked. If VALUE is a menu, then a -pullright item is created. - - This version also includes support for copying to and from the -sun-windows "stuff" selection. The keyboard bindings defined in -lisp/sun-fns.el let you move the current region to the "STUFF" -selection and vice versa. Just set point with the left button, set -mark with the middle button, (the region is automatically copied to -"STUFF") then switch to a shelltool, and "Stuff" will work. Going the -other way, the main right button menu contains a "Stuff Selection" -command that works just like in shelltool. [The Get and Put function -keys are also assigned to these functions, so you don't need the mouse -or even emacstool to make this work.] - - Until someone write code to read the textsw "Selection Shelf", it is -not possible to copy directly from a textsw to emacs, you must go through -the textsw "STUFF" selection. - - The Scroll-bar region is not a SunView scrollbar. It really should -be called the "Right-Margin" region. The scroll bar region is basically -the rightmost five columns (see documentation on variable scrollbar-width). -Mouse hits in this region can have special bindings, currently those binding -effect scrolling of the window, and so are referred to as the "Scroll-bar" -region. - - For information on what mouse bindings are in effect, use the command -M-x Describe-mouse-bindings, or the quick pop-up menu item "Mouse-Help". - - -GNU Emacs EXAMPLES: - See definitions in lisp/sun-fns.el for examples. - - You can redefine the cursor that is displayed in the emacs window. -On initialization, it is set to a right arrow. See lisp/sun-cursors.el -for additional cursors, how to define them, how to edit them. - -BUGS: - It takes a few milliseconds to create a menu before it pops up. -Someone who understands the GNU Garbage Collector might see if it -is possible for defmenu to create a SunView menu struct that does -not get destroyed by Garbage Collection. - - An outline of the files used to support Sun Windows and the mouse. - -etc/SUN-SUPPORT. - This document. - -etc/emacstool.1: - Added: an nroff'able man page for emacstool. - -etc/emacstool.c: - Encodes all the function keys internally, and passes non-window -system arguments to emacs. - -etc/emacs.icon: - The "Kitchen Sink" GNU Emacs icon. - -src/sunfns.c: - This contains the auxiliary functions that allow elisp code to interact -with the sunwindows, selection, and menu functions. - -lisp/sun-mouse.el: - Defines the lisp function which is called when a mouse hit is found -in the input queue. This handler decodes the mouse hit via a keymap-like -structure sensitive to a particular window and where in the window the -hit occurred (text-region, right-margin, mode-line). Three variables -are bound (*mouse-window* *mouse-x* *mouse-y*) and the selected function -is called. - See documentation on "define-mouse" or look at lisp/sun-fns.el -to see how this is done. - Defines two functions to pass between region and sun-selection - Defines functions for interfacing with the Menu. -During menu evaluation, the variables *menu-window* *menu-x* *menu-y* are bound. - -lisp/sun-fns.el - The definition of the default menu and mouse function bindings. - -lisp/sun-cursors.el - Defines a number of alternate cursors, and an editor for them. - The editor is also a demonstration of mouse/menu utilization. - -lisp/term/sun.el - Sets up the keymap to make the sun function keys do useful things. -Also includes the setup/initialization code for running under emacstool, -which makes "\C-Z" just close the emacstool window (-WI emacs.icon). - - Jeff Peck, Sun Microsystems, Inc <peck@sun.com> - - -Subject: Making multi-line scrolling really work: - -In your .defaults file, include the line: -/Tty/Retained "Yes" -That way, the terminal emulator can do text moves using bitblt, -instead of repaint. - -If that's not enough for you, then tell unix and emacs that -the sun terminal supports multi-line and multi-character insert/delete. -Add this patch to your /etc/termcap file: - -*** /etc/termcap.~1~ Mon Sep 15 12:34:23 1986 ---- /etc/termcap Mon Feb 9 17:34:08 1987 -*************** -*** 32,39 **** ---- 32,40 ---- - Mu|sun|Sun Microsystems Workstation console:\ - :am:bs:km:mi:ms:pt:li#34:co#80:cl=^L:cm=\E[%i%d;%dH:\ - :ce=\E[K:cd=\E[J:so=\E[7m:se=\E[m:rs=\E[s:\ - :al=\E[L:dl=\E[M:im=:ei=:ic=\E[@:dc=\E[P:\ -+ :AL=\E[%dL:DL=\E[%dM:IC=\E[%d@:DC=\E[%dP:\ - :up=\E[A:nd=\E[C:ku=\E[A:kd=\E[B:kr=\E[C:kl=\E[D:\ - :k1=\E[224z:k2=\E[225z:k3=\E[226z:k4=\E[227z:k5=\E[228z:\ - :k6=\E[229z:k7=\E[230z:k8=\E[231z:k9=\E[232z: - M-|sun-nic|sune|Sun Microsystems Workstation console without insert character:\ - - -If you don't have the program "patch", just add the line: - :AL=\E[%dL:DL=\E[%dM:IC=\E[%d@:DC=\E[%dP:\ - -casetek@crvax.sri.com says: - -Those of you using GNU Emacs on Sun workstations under -3.2 may be interested in reducing memory utilization in -the emacstool via the Sun toolmerge facility. The technique -is described in the Release 3.2 Manual starting on page -71. The following is a summary of how it would apply -to merging emacstool into the basetools. - -1) Change the main procedure declaration in emacstool.c to: - - #ifdef SUN_TOOLMERGE - emacstool_main (argc, argv); - #else - main (argc, argv) - #endif - - This will allow creation of either standard or toolmerge - versions. - -2) Copy emacstool.o into directory /usr/src/sun/suntool. -3) make CFLAGS="-g -DSUN_TOOLMERGE" emacstool.o -4) Add the following line to basetools.h - - "emacstool",emacstool_main, - -5) Add the following line to toolmerge.c. - - extern emacstool_main(); - -6) make basetools MOREOBJS="emacstool.o" -7) make install_bins - -To invoke the toolmerged version, you must exit suntools and -re-start it. Make sure that /usr/bin occurs before the directory -in which you installed the standard (non-toolmerged) version. - -
--- a/etc/tasks.texi Mon Oct 16 12:27:09 2000 +0000 +++ b/etc/tasks.texi Mon Oct 16 12:27:33 2000 +0000 @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ @setfilename tasks.info @settitle GNU Task List @c This date is automagically updated when you save this file: -@set lastupdate November 1, 1999 +@set lastupdate October 11, 2000 @c %**end of header @setchapternewpage off @@ -77,6 +77,11 @@ appreciate it very much, if they use it; but even when they benefit from a performance improvement, they may not consider it very important. +Finally, if you think of an important job that free software cannot +solve yet that is typically solved by proprietary software, please send +a short description of that job to @email{tasks@@gnu.org} so that we can +add it to this task list. + @node Highest Priority, Documentation, Intro, Top @chapter Highest Priority @@ -89,6 +94,11 @@ high priority projects. @itemize @bullet + +@item +A new maintainer is needed for Goose +@url{http://www.gnu.org/software/goose/goose.html}. + @item If you are good at writing documentation, please do that. @@ -108,7 +118,7 @@ @uref{ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/tasks/tasks.hurd}, via anonymous FTP. @item -@email{gnu@@gnu.org} via e-mail. +@email{gvc@@gnu.org} via e-mail. @end itemize @@ -118,6 +128,10 @@ and then contact the Guile developers at @email{guile@@gnu.org}. @item +Improve the facilities for translating other languages into Scheme, +so that Guile can provide support for a variety of languages. + +@item A package to convert programs written using MS Access into Scheme, making use of a free data base system and the GTK toolkit. @@ -131,6 +145,11 @@ For example, you could help work on Willows Twin. See @uref{http://www.willows.com/}. +@item +Add gettext support to GNU programs that don't have it already. (Please +contact the developers of the specific packages that you want to work +on.) + @ignore The Kermit developers say they will provide a free program to do this. @item @@ -226,10 +245,13 @@ reference documentation can be used as a starting point, but work is needed to weld them together into a coherent manual. +@ignore +@c Bradley Kuhn is working on this. <bkuhn@ebb.org> @item A good free Perl language tutorial introduction. The existing Perl introductions are published with restrictions on copying and modification, so that they cannot be part of a GNU system. +@end ignore @item A manual for PIC (the graphics formatting language). @@ -249,7 +271,7 @@ Compiler, Make, Texinfo, Termcap, and maybe the C Library. @item -Many utilities need documentation, including @code{grep} and others. +Many utilities still need documentation. @end itemize @node Unix-Related Projects, Kernel Projects, Documentation, Top @@ -266,6 +288,13 @@ Less urgent: make a replacement for the ``writer's workbench'' program @code{style}, or something to do the same kind of job. Compatibility with Unix is not especially important for this program. + +@item +Rewrite @code{indent} from scratch to make it cleaner. + +@item +Write a free software replacement for the @code{agrep} program. + @end itemize @node Kernel Projects, Extensions, Unix-Related Projects, Top @@ -345,9 +374,7 @@ A queueing system for the mailer Smail that groups pending work by destination rather than by original message. This makes it possible to schedule retries coherently for each destination. Talk to -@email{tron@@veritas.com} about this. - -Smail also needs a new chief maintainer. +@email{tron@@veritas.com} and @email{woods@@weird.com} about this. @item Enhanced cross-reference browsing tools. (We now have something at @@ -363,21 +390,26 @@ An emulator for Macintosh graphics calls on top of X Windows. @item -A package that emulates the API of Visual C++, but operates on top of -X11. It need not match the screen appearance of Visual C++. Instead, -it would be best to use GTK, so as to give coherence with GNOME. +A package that emulates the API of Visual C++'s Foundation Classes +(MFC), but operates on top of X11. It need not match the screen +appearance provided by MFC. Instead, it would be best to use GTK, so as +to give coherence with GNOME. + +@ignore +@c GNOME Basic is doing this @item A compatible replacement for Visual Basic, running on top of X11. It need not match the screen appearance of Visual C++. Instead, it would be best to use GTK, so as to give coherence with GNOME. +@end ignore +@ignore +@c Denemo is doing this. @item A music playing and editing system. This should work with LilyPond, a GNU program for music typesetting. - -@item -An ear-training program for students of music. +@end ignore @ignore @c GNUskies should do this @item @@ -385,9 +417,14 @@ to qualify as free software). @end ignore +@c Gepetto (@url{http://laurent.riesterer.free.fr/gepetto/intro-main.html}, +@c @email{laurent.riesterer@@free.fr}), according to @email{gnueval@@gnu.org}, +@c does the job of displaing dancers but does not allow editing notation. + @item A program to edit dance notation (such as labanotation) and display -dancers moving on the screen. +dancers moving on the screen. Gepetto done some of this work. Contact +@email{gvc@@gnu.org} if you are interested in helping finish the job. @item Make sure the Vibrant toolkit works with LessTif instead of Motif. @@ -400,8 +437,10 @@ graph structures of textual items, and then display them in various ways. +@ignore @c done @item A program for graphic morphing of scanned photographs. +@end ignore @item Software for designing and printing business cards. @@ -435,32 +474,25 @@ @itemize @bullet @item -A free library for public-key encryption. - -This library should use the Diffie-Helman algorithm for public key -encryption, not the RSA algorithm, because the Diffie-Helman patent in -the US expired in 1997. This library can probably be developed from -the code for the GNU Privacy Guard (now in development). - +A free library for public-key encryption. This library can probably be +developed from the code for the GNU Privacy Guard. + @item -An implementation of SSLv3 (more precisely, TLSv1) which is patent-free -(uses the non-RSA algorithms) and has distribution terms compatible with -the GNU GPL. We know of a GPL-covered implemention of a version of SSL -that you can use as a starting point. +An implementation of SSLv3 (more precisely, TLSv1) which has +distribution terms compatible with the GNU GPL. We know of a +GPL-covered implemention of a version of SSL that you can use as a +starting point. @item Free software for doing secure commercial transactions on the web. This too needs public key encryption. @end itemize -The projects to provide free replacements for PGP and SSH are no longer -listed here, because projects to do those jobs are well under way. - @node Other Projects, Languages, Encryption Projects, Top @chapter Other Projects If you think of others that should be added, please -send them to @email{gnu@@gnu.org}. +send them to @email{tasks@@gnu.org}. @itemize @bullet @ignore OpenBIOS is doing this @@ -478,19 +510,13 @@ in the computer in a way that is specific to each model of computer. @end ignore -@ignore Frank Cruz promises a free version -@item -A free program that can transfer files on a serial line -using the same protocol that Kermit uses. -@end ignore - @item An imitation of Page Maker or Ventura Publisher. @item An imitation of @code{dbase2} or @code{dbase3}. (How dbased!) -@uref{http://www.startech.keller.tx.us/xbase/xbase.html} may contain -some useful stuff to start with. +Harbour, a free replacement for Clipper, would provide a useful start. +@uref{http://www.harbour-project.org/}. @ignore @c being done by Jonas etc. @item @@ -545,12 +571,16 @@ A free replacement for the semi-free Qt library. @end ignore +@ignore +@c Ogg Vorbis is doing this, see @url{http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/index.html} or contact @email{Monty <monty@xiph.org>}. + @item High-quality music compression software. -(Talk with @email{phr@@netcom.com} for relevant suggestions.) +(Talk with @email{mt@@sulaco.org} for relevant suggestions.) Unfortunately we cannot implement the popular MP3 format due to patents, so this job includes working out some other non-patented format and compression method. +@end ignore @item A program to play sound distributed in ``Real Audio'' format. @@ -566,10 +596,12 @@ An MPEG III audio encoder/decoder (but it is necessary to check, first, whether patents make this impossible). -@c Chris Hofstader is working on this. +@c Chris Hofstader is working on a non-Festival speech-generation program. +@c Mario Lang <lang@zid.tu-graz.ac.at> reports that Festival needs only +@c to be 2-5 times faster to work well with Emacspeak. @item -Speech-generation programs (there is a program from Brown U that you -could improve). +Speech-generation programs that are faster than the Festival engine. +This might be done by optimizing Festival. @c We have a project now. @item @@ -596,9 +628,6 @@ (A clone of SPSS is being written already.) @item -Statistical tools. - -@item A scientific data collection and processing tool, perhaps something like Scientific Workbench and/or Khoros, @@ -607,20 +636,33 @@ the Schroedinger equation. @item -Software to replace card catalogues in libraries. +Software to replace card catalogs in libraries. @item A simulator for heating and air conditioning systems for buildings. +@ignore +@c Pat Deegan @email{pat@@psychogenic.com} is working on this. +@c no URL yet, the status is updated in @file{volunteers} + +@item +A program for voting and tabulating election results. + +@end ignore + @item A package for editing genealogical records conveniently. This could perhaps be done as a Gnome program, or perhaps as an Emacs extension. +@ignore +@c ToutDoux aims to do this. + @item A project-scheduling package that accepts a list of project sub-tasks with their interdependencies, and generates Gantt charts and Pert charts and all the other standard project progress reports. +@end ignore @item Grammar and style checking programs. @@ -629,18 +671,14 @@ A diagnostic program to test a hard disk. @item -A fast emulator for the i386, which would make it possible -to emulate x86 code on other CPUs, and also to more easily -debug kernels such as Linux more conveniently. - -To make this faster, it could work by translating machine instructions -into the machine language of the host machine. - -@item Optical character recognition programs; especially if suitable for scanning documents with multiple fonts and capturing font info as well as character codes. Work is being done on this, but more help is needed. +@c Some of the OCR work being done: +@c Luis Cearra <luisjc@lem.eui.upm.es>, http://lem.eui.upm.es/ocre.html +@c The status of these projects is updated in @file{/gd/gnuorg/volunteers} + @item A program to scan a line drawing and convert it to Postscript. @@ -648,6 +686,10 @@ A program to recognize handwriting. @item +A program that can translate from one natural language, into another. +For example, a program to translate French into English. + +@item A pen based interface. @item @@ -656,6 +698,16 @@ @item A program to receive data from a serial-line tap to facilitate the reverse-engineering of communication protocols. + +@item +A database program designed to store and retrieve patent information. + +@item +A free software package to run on a Palm Pilot in place of its usual +software, doing more or less the usual jobs. (Linux, the kernel, has +apparently been ported, but according to what we hear this port is not +useful yet.) + @end itemize @node Languages, Games and Recreations, Other Projects, Top @@ -676,9 +728,7 @@ We would like to have translators from various languages into Scheme. These languages include TCL, Python, Perl, Java, Javascript, and Rexx. - -We would like to have an implementation of Clipper, perhaps a GCC front -end, and perhaps a translator into Scheme. +Perhaps Clipper as well. @node Games and Recreations, , Languages, Top @chapter Games and Recreations @@ -705,6 +755,9 @@ to program play the computer's side in various strategic games. @item +A game like Mill/Nine Men's Morris. + +@item Write imitations of some popular video games: @itemize - @@ -726,8 +779,6 @@ @item Biomorph evolution (as in Scientific American and @cite{The Blind Watchmaker}). -@item -A program to display effects of moving at relativistic speeds. @end itemize @end itemize @@ -736,6 +787,17 @@ @contents @bye +@c LocalWords: dir texi lastupdate uref http www org html helpgnu ifinfo ftp +@c LocalWords: dvi hurd toc gvc URL GTK XmHTML xs nl ripley NT com gettext Qt +@c LocalWords: GUI libstdc Docbook SGML libc sed STL Gforth GNUstep TCSH Perl +@c LocalWords: Ghostscript PIC GCC Texinfo grep dc bc ethernet GDB IP CIFS CU +@c LocalWords: SMB SVGA Khoros Automake OpenStep diff roff Smail tron veritas +@c LocalWords: cxref ctrace API LilyPond xephem labanotation LessTif outliner +@c LocalWords: Hypercard morphing SeeMe ICQ Diffie Helman RSA SSLv TLSv GPL +@c LocalWords: OpenBIOS BIOS LILO dbase dbased Harbour harbour WYSIWYG ISBN +@c LocalWords: TruePrint Baecker siff sif cs arizona edu TR ps mt sulaco MP +@c LocalWords: RTSP MPEG jasonw ariel ucs unimelb AU stutz dsl TCL Javascript +@c LocalWords: Rexx GnuGo jhall isd Biomorph regexp eval gd gnuorg Local variables: update-date-leading-regexp: "@c This date is automagically updated when you save this file:\n@set lastupdate " update-date-trailing-regexp: ""
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog Mon Oct 16 12:27:09 2000 +0000 +++ b/lisp/ChangeLog Mon Oct 16 12:27:33 2000 +0000 @@ -1,3 +1,16 @@ +2000-10-16 Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org> + + * eshell/esh-var.el, eshell/esh-util.el, eshell/esh-test.el, + * eshell/esh-proc.el, eshell/esh-opt.el, eshell/esh-mode.el, + * eshell/esh-maint.el, eshell/esh-io.el, eshell/esh-ext.el, + * eshell/esh-cmd.el, eshell/esh-arg.el, eshell/em-xtra.el, + * eshell/em-unix.el, eshell/em-term.el, eshell/em-smart.el, + * eshell/em-script.el, eshell/em-rebind.el, eshell/em-prompt.el, + * eshell/em-pred.el, eshell/em-ls.el, eshell/em-hist.el, + * eshell/em-glob.el, shell/em-dirs.el, eshell/em-cmpl.el, + * eshell/em-basic.el, eshell/em-banner.el, eshell/em-alias.el: + Add author information. + 2000-10-16 Miles Bader <miles@lsi.nec.co.jp> * toolbar/up_arrow.xpm, toolbar/right_arrow.xpm: