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- GNU Emacs availability information, 16 Sept 1987
- Copyright (C) 1986, 1987 Richard M. Stallman
-
- Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute
- verbatim copies of this document provided that the
- copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved.
-
- GNU Emacs is legally owned by the Free Software Foundation, but we
- regard the foundation actually as its custodian on behalf of the
- public, since all software ought to be the common property of mankind.
-
- The foundation permits everyone to have and run copies of GNU Emacs,
- at no charge, and to redistribute copies under certain conditions
- which are designed to make sure that that all modified versions of GNU
- Emacs remain as free as the versions we distribute. These conditions
- are stated in the document "GNU Emacs General Public License", a copy
- of which is required to be distributed with every copy of GNU Emacs.
- It is usually in a file named COPYING in the same directory as this
- file.
-
- If you do not know anyone to get a copy of GNU Emacs from, you can
- order a tape from the Free Software Foundation. We distribute Emacs
- version 18 on 1600bpi industry standard mag tape in tar format. We
- will also ship it on 1/4" Sun cartridge tapes in tar format and on 1600bpi
- magtape in VMS interchange format. We also distribute nicely typeset
- copies of the Emacs manual. See the order form at the end of this
- file.
-
- If you have Internet access, you can copy the latest Emacs
- distribution from host prep.ai.mit.edu. There are several ways to do
- this; see the file `FTP' in the same directory as this file for more
- information. Even better, get the latest version of the file from
- `/u2/emacs/etc/FTP' on prep.ai.mit.edu for the most current
- arrangements. It may also be possible to copy Emacs via uucp; the
- file `FTP' contains information on that too.
-
- Emacs has been run on both Berkeley Unix and System V Unix, on a
- variety of types of cpu. It also works on VMS and on Apollo
- computers, though with some deficiencies that reflect problems in
- these operating systems. See the file MACHINES in this directory for
- a full list of machines that GNU Emacs has been tested on, with
- machine-specific installation notes and warnings.
-
- Note that there is significant variation between Unix systems
- supposedly running the same version of Unix; it is possible that what
- works in GNU Emacs for me does not work on your system due to such an
- incompatibility. Since I must avoid reading Unix source code, I
- cannot even guess what such problems may exist.
-
- GNU Emacs is distributed with no warranty (see the General Public
- License for full details), and neither I nor the Free Software
- Foundation promises any kind of support or assistance to users. The
- foundation keeps a list of people who are willing to offer support and
- assistance for hire. We will list anyone who agrees never to ask
- customers to keep secret anything they are told or given as part of
- the support. It is usually in a file named SERVICE in the same
- directory as this file.
-
- However, I plan to continue to improve GNU Emacs and keep it reliable,
- so please send me any complaints and suggestions you have. I will
- probably fix anything that is clearly (to me) a malfunction. I may
- make an improvement if I consider it worth the effort, but you should
- not be surprised if I don't think I can spare time for it. I hope to
- keep Emacs stable now, and avoid putting much time into it, so I can
- work on other parts of the GNU system.
-
- If you are on the Internet, report bugs to
- bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu; on Usenet, use the address
- ...!ucbvax!bug-gnu-emacs%prep.ai.mit.edu. Otherwise, phone the
- foundation at +1 617 876-3296, or write to the address listed below.
-
- If you are a computer manufacturer, I encourage you to ship a copy of
- GNU Emacs with every computer you deliver. The same copying
- permission terms apply to computer manufacturers as to everyone else.
- You should consider making a donation to help support the GNU project;
- if you estimate what it would cost to distribute some commercial
- product and divide it by five, that is a good amount.
-
- If you like GNU Emacs, please express your satisfaction with a
- donation: send me or the Foundation what you feel Emacs has been worth
- to you. If you are glad that I developed GNU Emacs and distribute it
- as freeware, rather than following the obstructive and antisocial
- practices typical of software developers, reward me for doing so!
-
- Your donations will help to support the development of more useful
- software to be distributed on the same basis as GNU Emacs. Eventually
- we will have a complete imitation of the Unix operating system, called
- GNU (Gnu's Not Unix), which will run Unix user programs. For more
- information on GNU, see the file GNU in this directory.
-
-
- Richard M Stallman
- Chief GNUisance,
- President of the Free Software Foundation
-
- Free Software Foundation Order Form
- 10 April 1987
-
- All software and publications are distributed with permission to
- copy and redistribute.
-
- Quantity Price Item
-
- ________ $150 GNU Emacs source code, on a 1600bpi industry standard
- mag tape in tar format. The tape also contains:
- * GDB (the GNU source-level C debugger)
- * MIT Scheme (a dialect of Lisp)
- * hack (a rogue-like game)
- * bison (a free, compatible replacement for yacc)
- * The X window system (a window system for bitmap
- displays written at MIT) (version 10r4)
- * GNU Chess (a chess playing program with an interface to X).
-
- -------- $175 Same data as above on a Sun DC300XL 1/4" cartridge tape.
-
- ________ $150 GNU Emacs only, on a 1600bpi industry standard mag
- tape in VMS backup format.
-
- ________ $15 GNU Emacs manual (~300 pages). These manuals are phototypeset
- and offset printed, with illustrated covers, a GBC plastic ring
- binding that stays open flat, and a tear-out reference card.
-
- Thus, a 1600 bpi tape and one Emacs manual come to $165.
-
- ________ $10 GDB Manual (~55 pages, side stapled.)
-
- ________ $10 Texinfo Manual (~30 pages, side stapled. Texinfo is GNU's
- structured documentation system, included with GNU Emacs
- This manual describes how to write Texinfo documents).
-
- ________ $60 Box of six GNU Emacs manuals.
-
- ________ $1 One GNU Emacs reference card.
-
- ________ $5 Ten GNU Emacs reference cards.
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