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- Getting GNU Software, 19 Sep 90
- Copyright (C) 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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- * GNU and the Free Software Foundation
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-
- * Available Software
-
- ** GNU Emacs
-
- The GNU Emacs distribution includes:
- - manual source in TeX format.
- - an enhanced regex (regular expression) library.
-
- See file /pub/gnu/etc/MACHINES for the status of porting Emacs to
- various machines and operating systems.
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- ** C Scheme - a block structured dialect of LISP.
-
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- ** Other GNU Software
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