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Date: 4 Oct 89 13:58:44 GMT
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To whom it may concern:

We would like to use the GNU products for development and we have some
questions:

1. (from management who's cautiously optimistic) How does FSF support itself?

2. (from the engineers) How can we get the list of software available
   from FSF?

3. How can we obtain software from FSF without ftp capability (uunet's
   archives are incomplete (no linker) and possibly out of date)?

4. (more specifically) We're trying to implement gcc v1.35 (and gas, etc.
   from uunet) on SCO UNIX (not XENIX) v3.2. The tools SCO supplies
   require object code in COFF format. Does gcc, etc. support COFF (we
   can't find it in the manual)? If not, does FSF have such tools as nm,
   ar, ranlib, etc.?

Thank you for your time. Sorry if these questions are naive, we're new to
FSF.

Thanks, and sorry about all those parenthases,

-Shane