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-*- text -*- Last modified Fri Jun 10 19:03:34 1994 This is an incomplete and probably out-of-date list of all the packages distributed on prep.ai.mit.edu with a brief description explaining what each one is. More information about these programs can typically be found in the GNU Bulletin. To receive a copy, write to gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu. Problems with the contents of this file (or problems pertaining to the packaging of these programs, e.g. if a file is corrupted) should be sent to friedman@prep.ai.mit.edu. Bug reports for the programs themselves should go to the appropriate address indicated in the instructions to that program. Because the unix `compress' utility is patented (by two separate patents, in fact), we cannot use it; it's not free software. Therefore, the GNU Project has chosen a new compression utility, `gzip', which is free of any known software patents and which tends to compress better anyway. Files compressed with this new compression program end in `.gz' (as opposed to `compress'-compressed files, which end in `.Z'). Gzip can uncompress `compress'-compressed files and SVR4 `pack' files (which end in `.z'). This is possible because the various decompression algorithms are not patented---only compression is. The gzip program is available from any GNU mirror site in shar, tar, or gzipped tar format (for those who already have a prior version of gzip and want faster data transmission). It works on virtually every unix system, MSDOS, OS/2, and VMS. Filenames below ending with "/" are directories. Other entries are plain files. COPYING-1.0 Version 1 of the GNU General Public License. COPYING-2.0 Version 2 of the GNU General Public License. COPYING.LIB-2.0 Version 2 of the GNU General Public Library License (there is no version 1). GNUinfo/ General files of interest about the GNU Project, most of them included in the GNU Emacs distribution. MailingListArchives/ Archives of the GNU mailing lists (most of which are also gatewayed to the various gnu.* newsgroups). MicrosPorts/ The GNU Project is not directly interested in integrating or maintaining ports of GNU software to many micro-computer systems, like Amiga's or MSDOS, because of limited resources. However, a few files with pointers to people who do maintain GNU software for these other systems are available in this directory. The rest of this file is the articles ``Forthcoming GNUs'' and ``GNU Software'' from the June, 1994 GNU's Bulletin which contains descriptions of our software. For more infomation on FSF's tapes, diskettes and CD-ROMs see the file prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/GNUinfo/ORDERS --------------------------------------------------------------------- GNU Software ************ All our software is available via anonymous FTP; see ``How to Get GNU Software''. In addition we offer software on various media and printed documentation: * see ``CD-ROMs''. * see ``Tapes''. * see ``MS-DOS Diskettes''. * see ``GNU Documentation'', which include manuals and reference cards. We welcome all bug reports sent to the appropriate electronic mailing list (see ``Free Software Support''). In the articles describing the contents of each medium, the version number listed after each program name was current when we published this Bulletin. When you order a distribution tape or diskette, some of the programs may be newer, and therefore the version number higher. Key to cross reference: BinCD Binaries CD-ROM DjgppD Djgpp Diskettes EmcsD Emacs Diskettes EmcsT Emacs Tape LangT Language Tape LiteT 4.4BSD-Lite Tape SchmT Scheme Tape SrcCD Source CD-ROM UtilD Selected Utilities Diskettes UtilT Utilities Tape VMSCompT VMS Compiler Tape VMSEmcsT VMS Emacs Tape WdwsD Windows Diskette X11OptT X11 Optional Tape X11ReqT X11 Required Tape Configuring GNU Software: We are using a uniform scheme for configuring GNU software packages in order to compile them, which uses the `autoconf' program. All GNU software supports the same alternatives for naming machine and system types. This makes it possible to configure any and all GNU software in the same manner. The configuration scheme also supports configuring a directory containing several GNU packages with one command. When the GNU system is complete it will be possible to configure and build the entire system at once, eliminating the need to separately configure each individual package. The configuration scheme can also specify both the host and target system, so you can easily configure and build cross-compilation tools. GNU software currently available: (For new features and coming programs, see ``Forthcoming GNUs''.) * `acm' (SrcCD, UtilT) `acm' is a LAN-oriented, multiplayer aerial combat simulation that runs under the MIT X Window System. Players engage in air to air combat against one another using heat seeking missiles and cannons. Eventually we hope to turn this into a more general purpose flight simulator. * Autoconf (SrcCD, UtilT) Autoconf produces shell scripts which automatically configure source code packages. These scripts adapt the packages to many kinds of Unix-like systems without manual user intervention. Autoconf creates a script for a package from a template file which lists the operating system features which the package can use, in the form of `m4' macro calls. Autoconf requires GNU `m4' to operate, but the resulting configure scripts it generates do not. Most GNU programs now use Autoconf-generated configure scripts. * BASH (SrcCD, UtilT) The GNU shell, BASH (Bourne Again SHell), is compatible with the Unix `sh' and offers many extensions found in `csh' and `ksh'. BASH has job control, `csh'-style command history, and command-line editing (with Emacs and `vi' modes built-in, and the ability to rebind keys) via the readline library. BASH conforms to the POSIX 1003.2 shell specification. * `bc' (SrcCD, UtilT) `bc' is an interactive algebraic language with arbitrary precision. GNU `bc' follows the POSIX 1003.2 draft standard, with several extensions including multi-character variable names, an `else' statement and full Boolean expressions. GNU `bc' does not require the separate `dc' program. * BFD (BinCD, LangT, SrcCD) The Binary File Descriptor library allows a program which operates on object files (e.g. `ld' or GDB) to support many different formats in a clean way. BFD provides a portable interface, so that only BFD needs to know the details of a particular format. One result is that all programs using BFD will support formats such as a.out, COFF, ELF & OSF-Rose. BFD comes with source for Texinfo documentation (not yet published on paper). Presently BFD is not distributed separately because it is not yet completely stable; however, it is included with packages that use it. * Binutils (BinCD, LangT, SrcCD) Binutils includes the programs: `ar', `c++filt', `demangle', `gprof', `ld', `nlmconv', `nm', `objcopy', `objdump', `ranlib', `size', `strings', & `strip'. Binutils Version 2 is completely rewritten to use the BFD library. The GNU linker `ld' emits source-line numbered error messages for multiply-defined symbols and undefined references. It interprets a superset of the AT&T Linker Command Language, which gives general control over where segments are placed in memory. `nlmconv' converts object files into Novell NetWare Loadable Modules. The `objdump' program can disassemble code for a29k, ALPHA, H8/300, H8/500, HP-PA, i386, i960, m68k, m88k, MIPS, SH, SPARC, & Z8000 processors, and can display other data such as symbols and relocations from any file format understood by BFD. * Bison (BinCD, LangT, SrcCD, VMSCompT) Bison is an upwardly compatible replacement for the parser generator `yacc'. Texinfo source for the `Bison Manual' and reference card are included. See ``GNU Documentation''. * GNU C Library (LangT, SrcCD) The GNU C library supports ANSI C-1989 and POSIX 1003.1-1990 and has most of the functions specified in POSIX 1003.2-1992. It is upwardly compatible with 4.4BSD and includes many System V functions, plus GNU extensions. The C Library will perform many functions of the Unix system calls in the Hurd. Mike Haertel has written a fast `malloc' which wastes less memory than the old GNU version. The GNU regular-expression functions (regex) now nearly conform to the POSIX 1003.2 standard. GNU `stdio' lets you define new kinds of streams, just by writing a few C functions. The `fmemopen' function uses this to open a stream on a string, which can grow as necessary. You can define your own `printf' formats to use a C function you have written. For example, you can safely use format strings from user input to implement a `printf'-like function for another programming language. Extended `getopt' functions are already used to parse options, including long options, in many GNU utilities. Version 1.08 has just been released, adding support for Sun RPC, `mmap' and friends, and compatibility with several more traditional Unix functions. It runs on Sun-3 (SunOS 4.1), Sun-4 (SunOS 4.1 or Solaris 2), HP 9000/300 (4.3BSD), SONY News 800 (NewsOS 3 or 4), MIPS DECstation (Ultrix 4), DEC Alpha (OSF/1), i386/i486 (System V, SVR4, BSD, SCO 3.2 & SCO ODT 2.0), Sequent Symmetry i386 (Dynix 3) & SGI (Irix 4). Texinfo source for the `GNU C Library Reference Manual' is included (see ``GNU Documentation''.); the manual still needs updating. * GNU C++ Library (BinCD, LangT, SrcCD) The GNU C++ library (libg++) is an extensive collection of C++ `forest' classes, a new IOStream library for input/output routines, and support tools for use with G++. Among the classes supported are Obstacks, multiple-precision Integers and Rationals, Complex numbers, arbitrary length Strings, BitSets and BitStrings. There is also a set of pseudo-generic prototype files for generating common container classes. Texinfo source for partial documentation is included (not yet published on paper). * Calc (EmcsT, SrcCD) Calc (written by Dave Gillespie in Emacs Lisp) is an extensible, advanced desk calculator and mathematical tool that runs as part of GNU Emacs. If you wish, you can use Calc just as a simple four-function calculator, but it provides additional features including choice of algebraic or RPN (stack-based) entry, logarithmic functions, trigonometric and financial functions, arbitrary precision, complex numbers, vectors, matrices, dates, times, infinities, sets, algebraic simplification, differentiation, and integration. It also outputs to `gnuplot'. Calc comes with Texinfo source for a reference card and the `Calc Manual', which serves as a tutorial and reference. See ``GNU Documentation''. * GNU Chess (SrcCD, UtilT) GNU Chess lets the computer play a full game of chess with you. It runs on most platforms and has dumb terminal, "curses", and X terminal interfaces. GNU Chess implements many specialized features including the null move heuristic, a hash table with aging, the history heuristic (another form of the earlier killer heuristic), caching of static evaluations, and a database which lets it play the first several moves in the game quickly. Recent improvements include better heuristics, faster evaluation, thinking on opponent's time, Swedish and German language support, support for more book formats, a rudimentary Bobby Fischer clock, and bug fixes. GNU Chess is primarily supported by Stuart Cracraft, Mike McGann, Chua Kong Sian, and Tim Mann on behalf of the FSF. Stuart Cracraft 25682 Cresta Loma Laguna Niguel, CA 92677 USA Telephone: +1-714-347-8107 Electronic-Mail: `cracraft@ai.mit.edu' * CLISP (EmcsT, SrcCD) CLISP is a Common Lisp implementation (CLtL1 + parts of CLtL2) by Bruno Haible and Michael Stoll. It mostly supports the Lisp described by `Common LISP: The Language (1st edition)'. CLISP includes an interpreter, a byte-compiler, a subset of CLOS and, for some machines, a screen editor. It has user interfaces in English & German (& French soon), chooseable at compile time. Major packages that run in CLISP include PCL and, on Unix machines, CLX & Garnet. CLISP needs only 1.5 MB of memory and runs on many microcomputers (including the Atari ST, Amiga 500-4000, most MS-DOS systems & OS/2) & some Unix workstations (Linux, Sun4, Sun386, HP9000/800, SGI, Sun3 and others). * GNU Common Lisp (EmcsT, SrcCD) GNU Common Lisp (GCL) has a compiler and interpreter for Common Lisp. It is very portable and extremely efficient on a wide class of applications. It compares favorably in performance with commercial Lisps on several large theorem prover and symbolic algebra systems. It supports the CLtL1 specification but is moving towards the proposed ANSI definition. It is based on AKCL and KCL. KCL was written by Taiichi Yuasa and Masami Hagiya in 1984, and AKCL has been developed by William Schelter since 1987. GCL compiles to C and then uses the native optimizing C compilers (e.g. GCC). A function with a fixed number of args and one value turns into a C function of the same number of args and returning 1 value, so it cannot really be any more efficient on such calls. It has a conservative GC which allows great freedom for the C compiler to put Lisp values in arbitrary registers. It has a source level Lisp debugger for interpreted code, with display of source code in the other Emacs window. It has profiling tools based on the C profiling tools, which count function calls and percentage of time. CLX works with GCL. There is an Xlib interface via C. PCL worked with earlier versions. See ``Forthcoming GNUs'', for plans for about GCL. GCL version 1.0 is being released under the GNU Library General Public License. (FTP `/pub/gnu/gcl.README' on `prep.ai.mit.edu'.) Get source from `ftp.cli.com'. For details ask `schelter@math.utexas.edu'. * `cpio' (SrcCD, UtilD, UtilT) `cpio' is an alternative archive program with all the features of SVR4 `cpio', including support for the final POSIX 1003.1 `ustar' standard. `mt', a program to position magnetic tapes, is included with `cpio'. * CVS (SrcCD, UtilT) CVS, the Concurrent Version System, manages software revision and release control in a multi-developer, multi-directory, multi-group environment. It works best in conjunction with RCS versions 4 and above, but will parse older RCS formats with the loss of CVS's fancier features. See Berliner, Brian, "CVS-II: Parallelizing Software Development," `Proceedings of the Winter 1990 USENIX Association Conference'. To find out how to get a copy of this report, ask `office@usenix.org'. * `dc' (SrcCD, UtilT) `dc' is an RPN calculator. GNU `bc' does not require a separate `dc' program to run. This version of `dc' will eventually be merged with GNU `bc'. * DejaGnu (LangT, SrcCD) DejaGnu is a framework for testing other programs that provides a single front end for all tests. The framework's flexibility and consistency make it easy to write tests for any program. DejaGnu comes with `expect', which runs scripts to conduct dialogs with programs; and Tcl, which is an embeddable scripting language. The FSF hopes to replace Tcl with a cleaner programming language someday. * Demacs, GNU Emacs for MS-DOS (EmcsD) Manabu Higashida and Hirano Satoshi have released Demacs, a GNU Emacs port for 386/486 based MS-DOS machines. It is compatible with XMS memory managers and VCPI, but not yet with Microsoft Windows extended mode or other DPMI managers. Anonymous FTP it from `oak.oakland.edu' in `/pub/msdos/demacs' (USA) & `utsun.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp' in `/GNU/demacs' (Japan). For an FTP site list and the current status of Demacs, email to `demacs@sigmath.osaka-u.ac.jp'. For details, FTP the `README' file. The FSF is offering Demacs on diskette. We will replace it with GNU Emacs 19, as soon as the MS-DOS port is ready. See ``Emacs Diskettes''. * Diffutils (SrcCD, UtilD, UtilT) GNU `diff' compares files showing line-by-line changes in several flexible formats. It is much faster than traditional Unix versions. The Diffutils package contains `diff', `diff3', `sdiff', and `cmp'. These improvements have recently been made to Diffutils: A new heuristic for `diff' greatly reduces the time needed to compare large input files that contain many differences, and produces output that is usually smaller rather than larger. New `diff' options give detailed control over output format, e.g. to provide if-then-else output for programming languages other than C. Message wordings and the definition of "white space" have been revised for compatibility with the POSIX.2 standard (ISO/IEC 9945-2:1993). * DJGPP (BinCD, DjgppD) DJ Delorie has ported GCC/G++ 2.5.7 (see the GCC item in this section) to the i386 MS-DOS platform. The DJGPP package also contains a 32-bit 80386 DOS extender with symbolic debugger; development libraries; and ports of Bison, `flex', GAS, and the GNU Binutils. Full source code is provided. It requires at least 5MB of hard disk space to install and 512K of RAM to use. It supports SVGA (up to 1024x768), XMS & VDISK memory allocation, `himem.sys', VCPI (e.g. QEMM, DESQview, & 386MAX), and DPMI (e.g. Windows 3.x, OS/2, QEMM, & QDPMI). The FSF offers it on the ``DJGPP Diskettes'', and on the ``Compiler Tools Binaries CD-ROM''. Or FTP file `/pub/msdos/djgpp' from `oak.oakland.edu' (or another SimTel mirror site). Ask `djgpp-request@sun.soe.clarkson.edu' to join a mailing list for DJGPP users. * `dld' (LangT, SrcCD) `dld' is a dynamic linker written by W. Wilson Ho. Linking your program with the `dld' library allows you to dynamically load object files into the running binary. Currently supported are VAX (Ultrix), Sun 3 (SunOS 3.4 & 4.0), SPARC (SunOS 4.0), Sequent Symmetry (Dynix), & Atari ST. * `doschk' (SrcCD, UtilT) This program is intended as a utility to help software developers ensure that their source file names are distinguishable on System V platforms with 14-character filenames and on MS-DOS with 8+3 character filenames. * `ecc' (SrcCD, UtilT) `ecc' is a Reed-Solomon error correction checking program, which can correct three byte errors in a block of 255 bytes and detect more severe errors. Contact `paulf@Stanford.EDU' for more information. * `ed' (SrcCD, UtilT) Ed is the standard text editor. * Elib (EmcsT, SrcCD) This is a small library of Emacs Lisp functions, including routines for using AVL trees and doubly-linked lists. * GNU Emacs In 1975, Richard Stallman developed the first Emacs, an extensible, customizable real-time display editor. GNU Emacs is his second implementation. It offers true Lisp--smoothly integrated into the editor--for writing extensions, and provides an interface to the MIT X Window System. In addition to its powerful native command set, extensions which emulate other popular editors are distributed: vi, EDT (DEC's VMS editor) and Gosling (aka Unipress) Emacs. It has many other features which make it a full computing support environment. Source for the `GNU Emacs Manual', the `GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual', and a reference card come with the software. See ``GNU Documentation''. * GNU Emacs 18 (EmcsD, EmcsT, SrcCD, VMSEmcsT) GNU Emacs 18.59 runs on many Unix systems. In hardware order: Alliant FX/80 & FX/2800, Altos 3068, Amdahl (UTS), Apollo, AT&T (3Bs & 7300 PC), DG Aviion, Bull DPX/2 (2nn & 3nn) CCI 5/32 & 6/32, Celerity, Convex, Digital (DECstation 3100 & 5000 (PMAXes), Mips, VAX (BSD, SysV & VMS)), Motorola Delta 147 & 187 Dual, Elxsi 6400, Encore (DPC, APC & XPC), Gould, HP (9000 series 200, 300, 700 & 800, but not 500), HLH Orion (original & 1/05), IBM (RS/6000 (AIX), RT/PC (4.2 & AIX) & PS/2 (AIX (386 only))), ISI (Optimum V, 80386), Intel 860 & 80386 (BSD, Esix, SVR3, SVR4, SCO, ISC, IX, AIX & others (see ``MS-DOS Diskettes''. & ``Free Software for Microcomputers'')), Iris (2500, 2500 Turbo & 4D), Masscomp, MIPS, National Semiconductor 32000, NeXT (Mach), NCR Tower 32 (SVR2 & SVR3), Nixdorf Targon 31, Nu (TI & LMI), pfa50, Plexus, Prime EXL, Pyramid (original & MIPS), Sequent (Balance & Symmetry), SONY News (m68k & MIPS), Stride (system release 2), all Suns including 386i (all SunOS & some Solaris vers.), Tadpole, Tahoe, Tandem Integrity S2, Tektronix (16000 & 4300), Triton 88, Ustation E30 (SS5E), Whitechapel (MG1) & Wicat. In operating system order: AIX (RS/6000, RT/PC, 386-PS/2), BSD (vers. 4.1, 4.2, 4.3), DomainOS, Esix (386), HP-UX (HP 9000 series 200, 300, 700, 800 but not 500), ISC (386), IX (386), Mach, Microport, NewsOS (Sony m68k & MIPS) SCO (386), SVR0 (Vax, AT&T 3Bs), SVR2, SVR3, SVR4, Solaris 2.0, SunOS, UTS (Amdahl), Ultrix (vers. 3.0, 4,1), Uniplus 5.2 (Dual machines), VMS (vers. 4.0, 4.2, 4.4, 5.5) & Xenix (386). * GNU Emacs 19 (EmcsT, SrcCD) New features in Emacs 19 include: multiple X windows ("frames" to Emacs), with either a separate X window for the minibuffer or a minibuffer attached to each X window; property lists associated with regions of text in a buffer; multiple fonts and colors defined by those properties; simplified and improved processing of function keys, mouse clicks and mouse movement; X selection processing, including clipboard selections; hooks to be run if point or mouse moves outside a certain range; menu bars and popup menus defined by keymaps; scrollbars; before and after change hooks; source-level debugging of Emacs Lisp programs; European character sets support; floating point numbers; improved buffer allocation, using a new mechanism capable of returning storage to the system when a buffer is killed; interfacing with the X resource manager; GNU configuration scheme support; good RCS support; & many updated libraries. New features in Emacs 19.23 include X toolkit support, dialog boxes, operation on MS-DOS, much faster text properties, keyboard equivalents shown automatically in menus, and text that highlights when you move the mouse over it. Unlike some other recent derivations of Emacs, Emacs 19 from the Free Software Foundation continues to work on character-only terminals as well as under the MIT X Window System. Emacs 19.23 is known to work on, in hardware order: Bull DPX/2 2nn & 3nn (SVR3) & sps7 (SVR2); Clipper; Cubix QBx (SysV); Data General Aviion (DGUX); DEC MIPS (Ultrix 4.2 & OSF/1, not VMS); Elxsi 6400 (SysV); Gould Power Node & NP1 (4.2 & 4.3BSD); Harris Night Hawk 1200 and 3000, 4000 and 5000 (cxux); Honeywell XPS100 (SysV); HP 9000 series 200, 300, 700, 800 (4.3BSD or HP-UX 7, 8, 9); Intel i386 & i486 (386BSD, AIX, BSDI/386, FreeBSD, Esix, ISC, Linux, MS-DOS, NetBSD, SCO3.2v4 with ODT, SysV, Xenix); IBM RS6000 (AIX 3.2); IBM RT/PC (AIX or BSD); Motorola Delta 147 & 187 (SVR3, SVR4, & m88kbcs); National Semiconductor 32K (Genix); NeXT (BSD or Mach 2 w/ NeXTStep 3.0); Prime EXL (SysV); Pyramid (BSD); Sequent Symmetry (BSD); SGI Iris 4D (Irix 4.x & 5.x); Sony News/RISC (NewsOS); Sun 3 & 4, SPARC 1, 1+, 2, 10 & Classic (SunOS 4.0, 4.1, Solaris 2.0-2.3); Tadpole 68k (SysV); Tektronix XD88 (SVR3) & 4300 (BSD); & Titan P2 & P3 (SysV). In operating system order: AIX (i386, RS6000, RT/PC); 4.1, 4.2, 4.3BSD (i386, Gould Power Node & NP1, HP9000 series 300, NeXT, Pyramid, Symmetry, Tektronix 4300, RT/PC); DG/UX (Aviion); Esix (i386); FreeBSD (i386); Genix (ns32k); HP-UX 7, 8, 9 (HP 9000 series 200, 300, 700, 800, but not 500); Irix 4 & 5 (Iris 4D); ISC (i386); Linux (i386); NetBSD (i386, HP9000 series 300); Mach 2 & 3 (i386, NeXT); SCO 3.2v4 (i386); SVR2 (Bull sps7); SVR3 (Bull DPX/2 2nn & 3nn, Motorola Delta 147 & 187, Tektronix XD88); SVR4 (Motorola Delta 147 & 187); Solaris 2 (SPARC 1, 1+, 2, 10, Classic); SunOS 4.0, 4.1 (Sun 3 & 4, SPARC 1, 1+, 2, 10 & Classic); Ultrix 4.2 (DEC MIPS); & Xenix (i386). Other configurations supported by Emacs 18 should work with few changes in Emacs 19; as users tell us more about their experiences with different systems, we will augment the list. Also see ``Forthcoming GNUs''. * `es' (SrcCD, UtilT) `es' is an extensible shell based on `rc' that has first class functions, lexical scope, an exception system, and rich return values (i.e. functions can return values other than just numbers). Like `rc', it is great for both interactive use and for scripting, particularly because its quoting rules are much less baroque than the C or Bourne shells. * `f2c' (LangT, SrcCD) `f2c' converts Fortran-77 source files into C or C++, which can be compiled with GCC. You can get bug fixes via FTP from `netlib.att.com' in the file `/netlib/f2c/changes.Z' or by email from `netlib@research.att.com'. See ``Forthcoming GNUs'', for information about GNU Fortran. * NetFax (SrcCD, UtilT) NetFax is a freely-available fax spooling system originally developed in the MIT AI Lab. It provides Group 3 fax transmission and reception services for a networked Unix system. It requires a faxmodem which accepts Class 2 fax commands. Contact `bug-fax@prep.ai.mit.edu' for more information. * Fileutils (SrcCD, UtilD, UtilT) The fileutils work on files: `chgrp', `chmod', `chown', `cp', `dd', `df', `dir', `du', `install', `ln', `ls', `mkdir', `mkfifo', `mknod', `mv', `mvdir', `rm', `rmdir', `touch', & `vdir'. Only some of these are on the ``Selected Utilities Diskettes''. * `find' (SrcCD, UtilD, UtilT) `find' is frequently used both interactively and in shell scripts to find files which match certain criteria and perform arbitrary operations on them. Also included are `xargs', which applies a command to a list of files, and `locate', which scans a database for file names that match a pattern. * Finger (SrcCD, UtilT) GNU Finger has more features than other finger programs. For sites with many hosts, a single host may be designated as the finger "server" host. This host collects information about who is logged in to other hosts at that site. If a user at site A wants to know about users logged on at site B, a single query to any machine at the site will return complete information. * `flex' (LangT, SrcCD, UtilD) `flex' is a replacement for the `lex' scanner generator. `flex' was written by Vern Paxson of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and generates far more efficient scanners than `lex' does. Texinfo source for the `Flex Manual' and reference card are included. See ``GNU Documentation''. * Fontutils (SrcCD, UtilT) The fontutils create fonts for use with Ghostscript or TeX, starting with a scanned type image and converting the bitmaps to outlines. They also contain general conversion programs and other utilities. Fontutils programs include: `bpltobzr', `bzrto', `charspace', `fontconvert', `gsrenderfont', `imageto', `imgrotate', `limn', and `xbfe'. * GAS (BinCD, LangT, SrcCD) GAS is the GNU assembler. Native assembly works for many systems, including: Sun 3, 4, & SPARC (SunOS 4.1 or Solaris 2); i386 (AIX, 386BSD, BSDI/386, Linux, SCO, Unixware); m68k (BSD, HP-UX, Convergent Technologies SysV); MIPS (Ultrix, Irix); Hitachi H8/300 and H8/500; & VAX (BSD, Ultrix, VMS). Cross assembling can be done for most of the above systems, plus: i386 (SCO, go32 MS-DOS/DJGPP); ebmon29k; Hitachi H8/300; i960 (b.out, COFF); MIPS ECOFF (Ultrix, Iris, MIPS Magnum); Nindy 960; vxworks (68k or 960); & Zilog Z8000. See ``Forthcoming GNUs'', for plans for future releases of GAS. * GAWK (LangT, SrcCD) GAWK is upwardly compatible with the System V Release 4 and POSIX versions of `awk'. It also provides several useful extensions not found in other `awk' implementations. Texinfo source for the `GAWK Manual' comes with the software. See ``GNU Documentation''. * GCC (BinCD, DjgppD, LangT, SrcCD, VMSCompT) Version 2 of the GNU C Compiler supports three languages: C, C++ and Objective-C; the source file name suffix or a compiler option selects the language. The front end support for Objective-C was donated by NeXT. The runtime support needed to run Objective-C programs is now distributed with GCC (this does not include any Objective-C classes aside from `object'). As much as possible, G++ is kept compatible with the evolving draft ANSI standard, but not with `cfront' (AT&T's compiler), which has been diverging from ANSI. The GNU C Compiler is a fairly portable optimizing compiler which performs automatic register allocation, common sub-expression elimination, invariant code motion from loops, induction variable optimizations, constant propagation and copy propagation, delayed popping of function call arguments, tail recursion elimination, integration of inline functions and frame pointer elimination, instruction scheduling, loop unrolling, filling of delay slots, leaf function optimization, optimized multiplication by constants, a certain amount of common subexpression elimination (CSE) between basic blocks (though not all of the supported machine descriptions provide for scheduling or delay slots), a feature for assigning attributes to instructions, and many local optimizations that are automatically deduced from the machine description. Function-wide CSE has been written, but needs to be cleaned up before it can be installed. Position-independent code is supported on the 68k, i386, Hitachi Slt, Hitachi H8/300, Clipper, 88k, SPARC & SPARClite. GCC can open-code most arithmetic on 64-bit values (type `long long int'). It supports extended floating point (type `long double') on the 68k; other machines will follow. GCC supports full ANSI C, traditional C and GNU C extensions. GNU C has been extended to support nested functions, nonlocal gotos, and taking the address of a label. GCC can generate a.out, COFF, ELF & OSF-Rose files when used with a suitable assembler. It can produce debugging information in these formats: BSD stabs, COFF, ECOFF, ECOFF with stabs & DWARF. GCC generates code for many CPUs, including: a29k, Alpha, ARM, Convex cN, Clipper, Elxsi, H8300, HP-PA (1.0 and 1.1) i370, i386, i486, i860, i960, m68k, m68020, m88k, MIPS, ns32k, Pyramid, ROMP, RS6000, SH, SPARC, SPARClite, VAX, and we32k. Operating systems supported include: AIX, ACIS, AOS, BSD, Clix, Ctix, DG/UX, Dynix, Genix, HP-UX, ISC, Irix, Linux, Luna, LynxOS, Mach, Minix, NewsOS, OSF, OSF-Rose, RISCOS, SCO, Solaris 2, SunOS 4, SysV, Ultrix, Unos, & VMS. The old (version 1) machine descriptions for the Alliant, Tahoe and Spur (as well as a new port for the Tron) do not work, but are still included in the distribution in case someone wants to work on them. Using the configuration scheme for GCC, building a cross-compiler is as easy as building a compiler for the same target machine. Version 2 supports more general calling conventions: it can pass arguments "by reference" and can preallocate the space for stack arguments. GCC 2 on the SPARC uses the SPARC conventions for structure arguments and return values. We no longer distribute or maintain version 1 of GCC, G++, or libg++. Texinfo source for the GCC manual, `Using and Porting GNU CC', is included with the compiler. See ``Forthcoming GNUs'', for plans for later releases of GCC. * GDB (BinCD, LangT, SrcCD) In GDB, object files and symbol tables are now read via the BFD library, which allows a single copy of GDB to debug programs of multiple object file formats such as a.out and COFF. Other new features include command language improvements, remote debugging over serial lines or TCP/IP, and watchpoints (breakpoints triggered when the value of an expression changes). Exception handling, SunOS shared libraries and C++ multiple inheritance are only supported when used with GCC version 2. GDB comes with a command line user interface; GNU Emacs is distributed with a GDB mode, and `xxgdb' provides an X interface (but it is not distributed or maintained by the FSF; it is available for anonymous FTP from `ftp.x.org' in the `/contrib' directory). GDB uses a standard remote interface to a simulator library which (so far) has simulators for the Zilog Z8001/2, Hitachi H8/300, H8/500 & Super-H. GDB can perform cross-debugging. To say that GDB *targets* a platform means that it can perform native or cross-debugging for it. To say that GDB can *host* a given platform means that it can be built on it, but cannot necessarily debug native programs. GDB can: * *target* & *host*: DEC Alpha (OSF/1), Amiga 3000 (Amix), DECstation 3100 & 5000 (Ultrix), HP 9000/300 (BSD), IBM RS/6000 (AIX), i386 (BSD, SCO, Linux, LynxOS), Motorola Delta m88k (System V), NCR 3000 (SVR4), SGI Iris (MIPS running Irix V3 & V4), SONY News (NewsOS 3.x), Sun-3 & SPARC (SunOS 4.1, Solaris 2.0) & Ultracomputer (29K running Sym1). * *target*, but not *host*: i960 Nindy, AMD 29000 (COFF & a.out), Fujitsu SPARClite, Hitachi H8/300, m68k & m68332. * *host*, but not *target*: Intel 386 (Mach), IBM RT/PC (AIX) & HP/Apollo 68k (BSD). GDB can use the symbol tables emitted by the compilers supplied by most vendors of MIPS-based machines, including DEC. (These tables are in a format which almost nobody else uses.) Texinfo source for the manual `Debugging with GDB' and a reference card are included. See ``GNU Documentation''. * `gdbm' (LangT, SrcCD, UtilD) The `gdbm' library is the GNU replacement for the traditional `dbm' and `ndbm' libraries. It implements a database using quick lookup by hashing. `gdbm' does not need sparse file formats (unlike its Unix counterparts). * Ghostscript (SrcCD, UtilT) Ghostscript is GNU's graphics language which is almost fully compatible with Postscript (see ``Forthcoming GNUs''). The current version of Ghostscript is 2.6.1. Features include the ability to use the fonts provided by the platform on which Ghostscript runs (MIT X Window System and Microsoft Windows), resulting in much better-looking screen displays; improved text file printing (like `enscript'); a utility to extract the text from a Postscript document; a much more reliable (and faster) Microsoft Windows implementation; support for Microsoft C/C++ 7.0; drivers for many new printers, including the SPARCprinter, and for TIFF/F (fax) file format; many more Postscript Level 2 facilities, including most of the color space facilities (but not patterns), and the ability to switch between Level 1 and Level 2 dynamically. Ghostscript accepts commands in Postscript and executes them by writing directly to a printer, drawing on an X window, or writing to a file that you can print later (or to a bitmap file that you can manipulate with other graphics programs). Ghostscript includes a C-callable graphics library (for client programs that do not want to deal with the Postscript language). It also supports IBM PCs and compatibles with EGA, VGA, or SuperVGA graphics (but please do *not* ask the FSF staff any questions about this; we do not use PCs). See ``Forthcoming GNUs'', for plans for later releases of Ghostscript. * Ghostview (SrcCD, UtilT) Tim Theisen, `ghostview@cs.wisc.edu', has created Ghostview, a previewer for multi-page files that runs on top of Ghostscript. Ghostview provides an X11 user interface for the Ghostscript interpreter. Ghostview and Ghostscript function as two cooperating programs; Ghostview creates a viewing window and Ghostscript draws in it. There is a port for Ghostview to MS-Windows called "GSview for Windows". For information about future releases of this program, see ``Forthcoming GNUs''. * `gmp' (LangT, SrcCD) GNU mp is a library for arbitrary precision arithmetic on signed integers and rational numbers. It has a rich set of functions with a regular interface. See ``Forthcoming GNUs'', for the plans for later releases of `gmp'. * GNATS (SrcCD, UtilT) GNATS (GNats: A Tracking System, not to be confused with GNAT, The GNU Ada Translator) is a bug-tracking system. It is based upon the paradigm of a central site or organization which receives problem reports and negotiates their resolution by electronic mail. Although it has been used primarily as a software bug-tracking system so far, it is sufficiently generalized so that it could be used for handling system administration issues, project management or any number of other applications. * `gnuplot' (SrcCD, UtilT) `gnuplot' is an interactive program for plotting mathematical expressions and data. It handles both curves (2 dimensions) and surfaces (3 dimensions). Curiously, the program was neither written nor named for the GNU Project; the name is a coincidence. * GnuGo (SrcCD, UtilT) GnuGo plays the game of Go (Wei-Chi); it is not yet very sophisticated. * `gperf' (LangT, SrcCD) `gperf' is a "perfect" hash-table generation utility. There are actually two implementations of `gperf', one written in C and one in C++. Both will produce hash functions in either C or C++. * GNU Graphics (SrcCD, UtilT) GNU Graphics is a set of programs which produce plots from ASCII or binary data. It supports output to Tektronix 4010, Postscript & the MIT X Window System or compatible devices. Features include support for output in ln03 and TekniCAD TDA file formats; a replacement for the `spline' program; examples of shell scripts using `graph' and `plot'; & a statistics toolkit. Existing ports need retesting. Contact Rich Murphey, `Rich@rice.edu', if you can help test/port it to anything beyond a SPARCstation. * grep (SrcCD, UtilD, UtilT) This package contains GNU `grep', `egrep', and `fgrep'. They are much faster than the traditional Unix versions. * Groff (SrcCD, UtilT) Groff is a document formatting system, which includes drivers for Postscript, TeX `dvi' format, and typewriter-like devices, as well as implementations of `eqn', `nroff', `pic', `refer', `tbl', `troff', and the `man', `ms', and `mm' macros. Groff's `mm' macro package is almost compatible with the DWB `mm' macros and has several extensions. Also included is a modified version of the Berkeley `me' macros and an enhanced version of the X11 `xditview' previewer. Written in C++, these programs can be compiled with GNU C++ Version 2.5 or later. Groff users are encouraged to contribute enhancements. Most needed are complete Texinfo documentation, a `grap' emulation (a `pic' preprocessor for typesetting graphs), a page-makeup postprocessor similar to `pm' (see `Computing Systems', Vol. 2, No. 2; ask `office@usenix.org' for information on obtaining a copy) and an ASCII output class for `pic' so that `pic' can be integrated with Texinfo. Questions and bug reports from users who have read the documentation that is provided with the distribution can be sent to `bug-groff@prep.ai.mit.edu'. * `gzip' (DjgppD, EmcsT, LangT, SrcCD, UtilT) Some of the contents of our tape and FTP distributions are compressed. We have software on our tapes and FTP sites to uncompress these files. Due to patent troubles with `compress', we have switched to another compression program, `gzip'. `gzip' can expand LZW-compressed files but uses a different algorithm for compression which generally produces better results. It also uncompresses files compressed with System V's `pack' program. * `hello' (SrcCD, UtilT) The GNU `hello' program produces a familiar, friendly greeting. It allows non-programmers to use a classic computer science tool which would otherwise be unavailable to them. Because it is protected by the GNU General Public License, users are free to share and change it. Like any truly useful program, `hello' provides a built-in mail reader. * `hp2xx' (SrcCD, UtilT) GNU `hp2xx' reads HP-GL files, decomposes all drawing commands into elementary vectors, and converts them into a variety of vector and raster output formats. It is also an HP-GL previewer. Currently supported vector formats include encapsulated Postscript, Uniplex RGIP, Metafont and various special TeX-related formats, and simplified HP-GL (line drawing only) for imports. Raster formats supported include IMG, PBM, PCX, & HP-PCL (including Deskjet & DJ5xxC support). Previewers work under X11 (Unix), OS/2 (PM & full screen), MS-DOS (SVGA, VGA, & HGC). * `indent' (SrcCD, UtilD, UtilT) GNU `indent' is a revision of the BSD version. By default, it formats C source according to the GNU coding standards. The BSD default, K&R and other formats are available as options. It is also possible to define your own format. GNU `indent' is more robust and provides more functionality than other versions, e.g., it handles C++ comments. * Ispell (SrcCD, UtilT) Ispell is an interactive spell checker that suggests "near misses" as replacements for unrecognized words. System and user-maintained dictionaries can be used. Standalone and GNU Emacs interfaces are available. * JACAL *Not available from the FSF* JACAL is a symbolic mathematics system for the manipulation and simplification of equations and single and multiple-valued algebraic expressions constructed of numbers, variables, radicals, and algebraic functions, differential operators and holonomic functions. In addition, vectors, matrices, and tensors of the above objects are included. JACAL was written in Scheme by Aubrey Jaffer. It comes with SCM, an IEEE P1178 and R4RS compliant version of Scheme written in C. SCM runs on Amiga, Atari-ST, MS-DOS, OS/2, NOS/VE, Unicos, VMS, Unix, and similar systems. SLIB is a portable Scheme library used by JACAL. Get JACAL, SLIB and SCM sources via anonymous FTP from either `ftp.maths.tcd.ie' in `/pub/bosullvn/jacal', `altdorf.ai.mit.edu' in `/archive/scm', or `prep.ai.mit.edu' in `/pub/gnu/jacal'. The FSF is not distributing JACAL on any media. To receive an IBM PC floppy disk with the source and executable files, send $99.00 to: Aubrey Jaffer 84 Pleasant Street Wakefield, MA 01880 USA * `m4' (SrcCD, UtilD, UtilT) GNU `m4' is an implementation of the traditional Unix macro processor. It is mostly SVR4 compatible, although it has some extensions (for example, handling more than 9 positional parameters to macros). `m4' also has built-in functions for including files, running shell commands, doing arithmetic, etc. * `make' (BinCD, EmcsT, LangT, SrcCD, UtilD, UtilT) GNU `make' supports POSIX 1003.2 and has all but a few obscure features of the BSD and System V versions of `make', as well as many of our own extensions. GNU extensions include long options, parallel compilation, flexible implicit pattern rules, conditional execution and powerful text manipulation functions. Recent versions have improved error reporting and added support for the popular `+=' syntax to append more text to a variable's definition. Texinfo source for the `Make Manual' comes with the program. See ``GNU Documentation''. GNU `make' is on several of our tapes because some system vendors supply no `make' utility at all, and some native `make' programs lack the `VPATH' feature essential for using the GNU configure system to its full extent. The GNU `make' sources have a shell script to build `make' itself on such systems. * MandelSpawn (SrcCD, UtilT) A parallel Mandelbrot generation program for the MIT X Window System. * mtools (SrcCD, UtilT) mtools is a set of public domain programs to allow Unix systems to read, write and manipulate files on an MS-DOS file system (usually a diskette). * MULE (SrcCD) MULE is a MULtilingual Enhancement to GNU Emacs 18. It can handle many character sets at once including Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, Greek, the ISO Latin-1 through Latin-5 character sets, Ukrainian, Russian, and other Cyrillic alphabets. A text buffer in MULE can contain a mixture of characters from these languages. To input any of these characters, you can use various input methods provided by MULE itself. In addition, if you use MULE under some terminal emulators (kterm, cxterm, or exterm), you can use its input methods. See ``GNU and Other Free Software in Japan'', for more information about MULE. * NetHack (SrcCD, UtilT) NetHack is a display-oriented adventure game similar to Rogue. Both ASCII and X displays are supported. * NIH Class Library (LangT, SrcCD) The NIH Class Library (formerly known as "OOPS", Object-Oriented Program Support) is a portable collection of C++ classes, similar to those in Smalltalk-80, which has been developed by Keith Gorlen of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), using the C++ programming language. * `nvi' (SrcCD, UtilT) `nvi' is a free implementation of the `vi'/`ex' Unix editor. It has most of the functionality of the original `vi'/`ex', except "open" mode & the `lisp' option, which will be added. Enhancements over `vi'/`ex' include split screens with multiple buffers, ability to handle 8-bit data, infinite file & line lengths, tag stacks, infinite undo & extended regular expressions. It runs under BSD, Linux, NetBSD, FreeBSD, BSDI, AIX, HP-UX, DGUX, IRIX, PSF, PTX, Solaris, SunOS, Ultrix, Unixware & should port easily to many other systems. * Octave (LangT, SrcCD) Octave is a high-level language that is primarily intended for numerical computations. It provides a convenient command line interface for solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically. Octave does arithmetic for real and complex scalars and matrices, solve sets of nonlinear algebraic equations, integrate functions over finite and infinite intervals, and integrate systems of ordinary differential and differential-algebraic equations. Send queries and bug reports to: `bug-octave@che.utexas.edu'. Octave is available via anonymous ftp from `ftp.che.utexas.edu' in the directory `/pub/octave'. The files are in gzipped `tar' format (see the file `/pub/gnu/README' on `prep.ai.mit.edu'). Source is included for a 150+ page Texinfo manual, which is not yet published by the FSF. * Oleo (SrcCD, UtilT) Oleo is a spreadsheet program (better for you than the more expensive spreadsheets). It supports the MIT X Window System and character-based terminals, and can output Embedded Postscript renditions of spreadsheets. Keybindings should be familiar to Emacs users and are configurable. Under X and in Postscript output, Oleo supports multiple, variable width fonts. See ``Forthcoming GNUs'', for the plans for later releases of Oleo. * `p2c' (LangT, SrcCD) `p2c' is a Pascal-to-C translator written by Dave Gillespie. It recognizes many Pascal dialects including Turbo, HP, VAX, and ISO, and produces readable, maintainable, portable C. * `patch' (SrcCD, UtilT) `patch' is our version of Larry Wall's program to take `diff''s output and apply those differences to an original file to generate the modified version. * PCL (EmcsT, SrcCD) PCL is a free implementation of a large subset of CLOS, the Common Lisp Object System. It runs under CLISP, mentioned above. * `perl' (LangT, SrcCD) Larry Wall's `perl' combines the features and capabilities of `sed', `awk', `sh' and C, as well as interfaces to all the system calls and many C library routines. A perl mode for editing `perl' code comes with GNU Emacs 19. * `ptx' (SrcCD, UtilD, UtilT) GNU `ptx' is the GNU version of the traditional permuted index generator. It can handle multiple input files at once, produce TeX compatible output, and produce readable "KWIC" (KeyWords In Context) indexes without needing to use `nroff'. This version does not handle input files that do not fit in memory all at once. * `rc' (SrcCD, UtilT) `rc' is a shell that features a C-like syntax (much more so than `csh') and far cleaner quoting rules than the C or Bourne shells. It's intended to be used interactively, but is also great for writing scripts. It inspired the shell `es'. * RCS (SrcCD, UtilD, UtilT) The Revision Control System, RCS, is used for version control and management of software projects. When used with GNU `diff', RCS can handle binary files (executables, object files, 8-bit data, etc). Also see the item about CVS in this article. * `recode' (SrcCD, UtilT) GNU `recode' converts files between character sets and usages. When exact transliterations are not possible, it may get rid of the offending characters or fall back on approximations. This program recognizes or produces nearly 150 different character sets and is able to transliterate files between almost any pair. Most RFC 1345 character sets are supported. * regex (LangT, SrcCD) The GNU regular expression library supports POSIX.2, except for internationalization features. In the past, it has been included in many GNU programs which use regex routines. Now it is finally available separately. A faster version of this library comes with `sed'. * Scheme (SchmT) For information about Scheme, see ``Scheme Tape''. * `screen' (SrcCD, UtilT) `screen' is a terminal multiplexer that runs several separate "screens" (ttys) on a single physical character-based terminal. Each virtual terminal emulates a DEC VT100 plus several ANSI X3.64 and ISO 2022 functions. `screen' sessions can be detached and resumed later on a different terminal type. * `sed' (SrcCD, UtilD, UtilT) `sed' is a stream-oriented version of `ed'. It is used copiously in shell scripts. GNU `sed' comes with the rx library, which is a faster version of regex (see ``Forthcoming GNUs''). * Shellutils (SrcCD, UtilT) Use shellutils interactively or in shell scripts: `basename', `date', `dirname', `echo', `env', `expr', `false', `groups', `id', `nice', `nohup', `printenv', `printf', `sleep', `stty', `su', `tee', `test', `true', `tty', `uname', `who', `whoami', and `yes'. * GNU Shogi (SrcCD, UtilT) Shogi is a Japanese game similar to Chess; a major difference is that captured pieces can be returned into play. GNU Shogi has been created by modifying GNU Chess; GNU Shogi implements the same features as GNU Chess and uses similar heuristics. As a new feature, sequences of partial board patterns can be introduced in order to help the program play a good order of moves towards specific opening patterns. There are both character and X display interfaces. GNU Shogi is primarily supported by Matthias Mutz on behalf of the FSF. Matthias Mutz Universitaet Passau, FMI 94030 Passau Germany Electronic-mail: `mutz@fmi.uni-passau.de' * Smalltalk (LangT, SrcCD) GNU Smalltalk is an interpreted object-oriented programming language system written in highly portable C. It has been successfully ported to many Unix and some other platforms, including DOS (but these non-Unix ports are not available from the FSF). Current features include a binary image save capability, the ability to invoke user-written C code and pass parameters to it, a GNU Emacs editing mode, a version of the X protocol invocable from Smalltalk, optional byte-code compilation tracing and byte-code execution tracing, and automatically loaded per-user initialization files. It implements all of the classes and protocol in the Smalltalk-80 book "Smalltalk-80: The Language", except for the graphic user interface (`GUI') related classes. See ``Forthcoming GNUs'', for plans for later releases of Smalltalk. * Superopt (LangT, SrcCD) Superopt is a function sequence generator that uses an exhaustive generate-and-test approach to find the shortest instruction sequence for a given function. You provide the GNU superoptimizer, `gso', a function, a CPU to generate code for, and how many instructions you can accept. Its application in GCC is described in the `ACM SIGPLAN PLDI'92' proceedings. Superopt supports: SPARC, m68k, m68020, m88k, IBM RS/6000, AMD 29000, Intel 80x86, Pyramid, DEC Alpha, & HP-PA. * `tar' (SrcCD, UtilT) GNU `tar' includes multivolume support, the ability to archive sparse files, automatic archive compression/decompression, remote archives and special features that allow `tar' to be used for incremental and full backups. Unfortunately, GNU `tar' implements an early draft of the POSIX 1003.1 `ustar' standard which is different from the final standard. Adding support for the new changes in a backward-compatible fashion is not trivial. * Termcap Library (SrcCD, UtilT) The GNU Termcap library is a drop-in replacement for `libtermcap.a' on any system. It does not place an arbitrary limit on the size of Termcap entries, unlike most other Termcap libraries. Included is source for the `Termcap Manual' in Texinfo format. See ``GNU Documentation''. * TeX (SrcCD) TeX is a document formatting system that handles complicated typesetting, including mathematics. It is GNU's standard text formatter. You can obtain TeX from the University of Washington, which maintains and supports a tape distribution of TeX for Unix systems. The core material consists of Karl Berry's `web2c' TeX package, the sources for which are available via anonymous ftp; retrieval instructions are in `pub/tex/FTP.nwc' on `ftp.cs.umb.edu'. If you receive any installation support from the University of Washington, please consider sending them a donation. To order a full distribution written in `tar' on either a 1/4inch 4-track QIC-24 cartridge or a 4mm DAT cartridge, send $210.00 to: Northwest Computing Support Center DR-10, Thomson Hall 35 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195 USA Electronic-Mail: `unixtex@u.washington.edu' Telephone: +1-206-543-6259 Please make checks payable to the University of Washington. Checks must be in U.S. dollars, drawn on a U.S. bank. Prepaid orders are preferred but purchase orders are acceptable; however, they carry an extra charge of $10.00 to pay for invoice processing. Overseas sites: please add to the base cost $20.00 for shipment via air parcel post, or $30.00 for shipment via courier. Please check with the above for current prices and formats. * Texinfo (EmcsT, LangT, SrcCD, UtilD, UtilT) Texinfo is a set of utilities which generate both printed manuals and online hypertext-style documentation (called "Info"). There are also programs for reading online Info documents. Version 3 has both GNU Emacs Lisp and standalone programs written in C or shell script. Texinfo mode for GNU Emacs enables easy editing and updating of Texinfo files. Programs provided include `makeinfo', `info', `texi2dvi', `texindex', `tex2patch', and `fixfonts'. Source for the `Texinfo Manual' is included. See ``GNU Documentation''. * Textutils (SrcCD, UtilT) The Textutils programs manipulate textual data. They include: `cat', `cksum', `comm', `csplit', `cut', `expand', `fold', `head', `join', `nl', `od', `paste', `pr', `sort', `split', `sum', `tac', `tail', `tr', `unexpand', `uniq', and `wc'. * Tile Forth (LangT, SrcCD) Tile Forth is a 32-bit implementation of the Forth-83 standard written in C, allowing it to be easily moved between different computers. (Traditionally, Forth implementations are written in assembler to use the underlying hardware as optimally as possible, but this also makes them less portable.) * `time' (SrcCD, UtilT) `time' is used to report statistics (usually from a shell) about the amount of user, system and real time used by a process. On some systems it also reports memory usage, page faults, and other statistics. * `tput' (SrcCD, UtilT) `tput' is a portable way for shell scripts to use special terminal capabilities. Our `tput' uses the Termcap database, instead of Terminfo as most others do. * UUCP (SrcCD, UtilT) This version of UUCP was written by Ian Lance Taylor, and is GNU's standard UUCP system. It supports the `f', `g' and `v' (in all window and packet sizes), `G', `t', `e', Zmodem and two new bidirectional (`i' and `j') protocols. If you have a Berkeley sockets library, it can make TCP connections. If you have TLI libraries, it can make TLI connections. Source is included for a Texinfo manual, which is not yet published by the FSF. * `uuencode' and `uudecode' (SrcCD, UtilT) `uuencode' and `uudecode' are used to transmit binary files over transmission mediums that support only simple ASCII data. * `wdiff' (SrcCD, UtilT) `wdiff' is a front-end to GNU `diff'. It compares two files, finding which words have been deleted or added to the first in order to create the second. It has many output formats and interacts well with terminals and pagers. `wdiff' is particularly useful when two texts differ only by a few words and paragraphs have been refilled. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Forthcoming GNUs **************** Information about the current status of released GNU programs can be found in ``GNU Software''. Here is some news of future plans. * `makeinfo' and the World Wide Web (Also see ``GNU Software''.) `makeinfo' is being modified to translate Texinfo source files into HTML documents that can be displayed from the Internet's World Wide Web. * GNU Common Lisp (For current status, see ``GNU Software''.) Planned development for GNU Common Lisp (GCL) includes moving to the ANSI standard, adding a byte compiler with source level debugging, and adding a windowing interface. A new compiler is being tested; it will make all functions pass arguments on the C stack and return values in a standard register with additional locations when necessary. This will speed up other function calls and funcalling (critical for object oriented work). Contributors to any of these areas would be helpful; contact `schelter@math.utexas.edu'. * GNU Emacs (For current status, see ``GNU Software''.) Emacs is the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor. Features planned for future releases of Emacs include: different visibility conditions for regions and for multiple windows showing the same buffer; incrementally saving the undo history in a file, so that you can undo older changes in the history; support for variable-width fonts; and support for wide character sets including all the world's major languages. * C Interpreter The FSF is adding interpreter facilities to the GNU compiler and debugger. This task is partly finished. GCC now generates byte code (for all supported languages: C, C++ and Objective-C) and another package interprets it. To make this work usable, we need to add features to GDB to load the byte code dynamically. We also would like C compiler support for compiling just a specified few functions in a file. Due to limited resources, the FSF cannot fund this. Interested volunteers should contact `gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu'. * GAS (For current status, see ``GNU Software''.) The GNU assembler is in the process of being rewritten to fully use the BFD library. Currently BFD is used only on some platforms. When this work is finished, porting the entire compiler support suite (GAS and Binutils) to new platforms should be easier. Forthcoming versions will include support for the HP-PA, DEC Alpha (running OSF/1), RS/6000 and PowerPC processors. * GCC (For current status, see ``GNU Software''.) New front ends for GCC are being developed, but they are not yet part of GCC. A front end for Fortran is now in alpha test and is approaching completion, and a front end for Ada (GNAT: The GNU Ada Translator) is available via anonymous FTP from `cs.nyu.edu' in `/pub/gnat', though it is not yet stable. News about GNAT is posted to the USENET newsgroup `comp.lang.ada'. Volunteers are also developing a Pascal front end. * GNU Fortran (For info on `f2c' & GCC, see ``GNU Software''.) GNU Fortran (`g77') is in "private" alpha test (testing by a small group of experts) and is not yet publicly released. Until `g77' is fully released to the public, we ask people to use `f2c' (a Fortran-to-C translator) with GCC. As `g77' uses a lot of these tools (the `f2c' libraries and the GCC back end), using them and reporting any problems you find will help speed the release of `g77'. The primary focus of the alpha test is to test the `g77' front end, since that has most of the new code. The secondary focus of the alpha test is to test the integration between the front end and the back end. Currently, this is where most of the bugs seem to be. The tertiary focus is the quality of code generated by the GNU back end for Fortran. We hope to have a `g77' beta release in summer 1994, as part of the regular compiler distribution. A mailing list exists for announcements about `g77'. To subscribe, ask `info-gnu-fortran-request@prep.ai.mit.edu'. To contact the author and maintainer of `g77', write to `fortran@prep.ai.mit.edu'. * Ghostscript (For current status, see ``GNU Software''.) Ghostscript 2.6.2, consisting of version 2.6.1 with bug fixes, will be released and distributed by FSF sometime in late 1994. Ghostscript 3.0 will be released and distributed by FSF in the second quarter of 1995; a future GNU's Bulletin will have a more definite date. It will implement the full PostScript Level 2 language except for LZW compression, which can't be freely implemented because of software patents. (Prohibitions like this on programming are what the League for Programming Freedom is fighting. See ``What Is the LPF?'', for details.) * GSview for Windows and OS/2 (Also see ``GNU Software''.) A new version of Russell Lang's Ghostview for Windows will be released during the second quarter of 1994. The name has been changed to "GSview for Windows" in order to avoid confusion with Tim Theisen's Ghostview. An OS/2 port called "PM GSview" will be released at the same time. For more information, contact Russell at `rjl@monu1.cc.monash.edu.au'. * `gmp' (For current status, see ``GNU Software''.) The GNU mp library, version 2.0, (due out soon) has arbitrary precision floating point arithmetic, is more portable, and is up to 4 times faster than previous versions. * Oleo (For current status, see ``GNU Software''.) Volunteers are writing an Oleo manual and extensions to the Oleo interface. * rx, a faster regular expression library Tom Lord has written a new regular expression library which is faster than the current library we use. Currently it is only being distributed with `sed'; eventually we will distribute it as a separate package as well. This new library is nearly a drop-in replacement for the current regex library used by the GNU Project, but it needs a few more features before it can be used in Emacs. * Smalltalk (For current status, see ``GNU Software''.) Future versions will contain significant performance improvements, ability to use the Smalltalk interpreter as a subroutine, better interfaces to the MIT X Window System, ability to represent and manipulate C data structures in Smalltalk, conditional compilation facilities, large integer support, exceptions, and weak references & finalization support. ----------------------------------------------------------------------