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- From: jem@sunSITE.unc.edu (Jonathan Magid)
- Subject: Re: What is what in the GNUniverse?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.031048.20796@samba.oit.unc.edu>
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- References: <HANCHE.92Dec16172632@ptolemy.ams.sunysb.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 03:10:48 GMT
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- In article <HANCHE.92Dec16172632@ptolemy.ams.sunysb.edu> hanche@ams.sunysb.edu (Harald Hanche-Olsen) writes:
- >FTPing to prep.ai.mit.edu I find in the pub/gnu directory about 88
- >packages (=programs, libraries and program collections). This is all
- >very impressive, and must represent countless hours of good work by
- >innumerable volunteers. A lot of the stuff there I already use, and
- >there might be lots more that could be useful to me. However,
- >
- >(setq whine-mode t)
- >
-
- [2/3 of whine deleted]
-
- >So why isn't there a nice, clean README file there, containing a short
- >little description of each package, that I can download and study at
- >my leisure? It would cost so little, and be so useful. If each
- >author of GNU software was required to provide such a description (max
- >10 lines, say) then a coordinator could produce the required file in
- >no time at all.
- >
- >(setq whine-mode nil)
-
- Would you believe that I have already done this? the INDEX file in
- sunsite.unc.edu's mirror of prep (/pub/gnu) contains what you are looking
- for. In a couple of cases, its a few decimal places behind in version
- number (I wrote it a couple of months ago and haven't updated it since).
-
- If somebody in charge likes, I can donate my list to prep as well.
-
- jem.
- ps. use hello. its the most useful utility for the novice. :)
-
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