Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!usc!snorkelwacker!ai-lab!tower From: tower@wheaties.ai.mit.edu (Leonard H. Tower Jr.) Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix Subject: Re: Anaheim Terminal Room Update Summary: 4 GNU tapes will be available for copying Message-ID: <8886@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu> Date: 7 Jun 90 04:29:40 GMT References: <371@usenix.ORG> Reply-To: tower@ai.mit.edu Followup-To: comp.org.usenix Organization: Project GNU, Free Software Foundation, 675 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139, USA +1 (617) 876-3296 Lines: 81 Day-Phone: +1 (617) 353-2780 Home: 36 Porter Street, Somerville, MA 02143, USA +1 (617) 623-7739 In article <371@usenix.ORG> sonya@usenix.UUCP (Sonya Neufer) writes: | |The terminal room will have a Sun 3/80 with QIC 11, QIC 24 and a |9-track tape drive. Facilities will be available to make QIC 11, |QIC 24 and Exabyte tapes from AnDATAco's booth on the show floor |as well. | |It is possible the Terminal Room will have Exabyte and TK50 facilities |as well. I will be bringing the four tapes that the GNU Project is currently distributing. A description of them is appended. It will probably also be possible to ftp software from any of the numerous ftp archive sites around the Internet. Maybe have a glance over comp.archives before you come? See you in Anaheim. enjoy -len ---------------------------------------------------------------------- All software and publications are distributed with permission to copy and redistribute. TeX source for each manual is on the appropriate tape; the prices for tapes do not include printed manuals. All software from the Free Software Foundation is provided on an "as is" basis, with no warranty of any kind. 1) GNU Emacs source code and other software. The tape includes: * GNU Emacs (the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor) * MIT Scheme (a dialect of Lisp) * T, Yale's implementation of Scheme * Bison (a free, compatible replacement for yacc) * Nethack (a rogue-like game) * GNU Chess (a chess playing program with an interface to X). * GDB (release version of the GNU source-level C debugger) * The X window system (a window system for bitmap displays written at MIT) (version 10r4) 2) GNU Beta Test software, for Unix systems. The tape includes: * GCC (the GNU C Compiler, including COFF support) * G++ (the C++ front end to GCC) * lib-g++ (the G++ class library) * NIH Class Library (formerly known as OOPS) * Interviews (C++ library to support X11 window systems) * Bash (GNUs' Bourne Again SHell) * Bison (a free, compatible replacement for yacc) * Flex (Vern Paxson fast rewrite of lex) * Ghostscript (a Postscript interpreter) * Gawk (the GNU implementation of the AWK programming language) * Gas (the GNU Assembler) * GDB (beta version of the GNU source-level C debugger) * Gnuplot (an interactive mathematical plotting program) * Compress (a file compression program) * RCS (Revision Control System) * CVS (Concurrent Control System) * GNU object file utilities (ar, ld, make, gprof, size, nm, strip, ranlib, et al.) * other GNU utilities (make, diff, grep, tar, et al.) * Gnu GO (the GNU implementation of the game of GO) * the freed files from the 4.3BSD-Tahoe distribution 3) Required MIT X Window System X11R4 tape, core software and documentation, and contributed client software. 4) Optional MIT X Window System X11R4 tape, contributed software including libraries, games, Andrew and toolkits. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- enjoy -len -- Len Tower, Project GNU of the Free Software Foundation 1000 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138, USA +1 (617) 876-3296 HOME: 36 Porter Street, Somerville, MA 02143, USA +1 (617) 623-7739 UUCP: {}!mit-eddie!mit-prep!tower INTERNET: tower@prep.ai.mit.edu