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From: billw@wolf.UUCP (Bill Wisner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: EMACS, GNU, other goodies
Message-ID: <314@wolf.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 25-Apr-87 12:51:51 EDT
Article-I.D.: wolf.314
Posted: Sat Apr 25 12:51:51 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 29-Apr-87 05:10:18 EDT
References: <2404@ncoast.UUCP> <6906@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <4524@utah-cs.UUCP>
Organization: The Erisian Liberation Front
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Summary: Not the clearest.

>Article <4524@utah-cs.UUCP>: sandra@utah-cs.UUCP (Sandra J Loosemore)
>>Article <6906@bu-cs.BU.EDU>: tower@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Leonard H. Tower Jr.)
>>>Article <2404@ncoast.UUCP>: billw@wolf.UUCP (Bill Wisner, that's me)
>>> What is GNU? How does the recently posted GNU EMACS fit in? (....)

I confess, I asked a very dumb question. I didn't think first and was half
asleep. My apologies. I left out a word.

>> These questions can be answered by asking the address: (....)

My question is still unanswered, though, and it is "what is GNU?" Thank you,
Leonard, for the address.

> (Doesn't anybody ever read the README file?)

Yes.

> The "recently posted GNU EMACS" in question is actually MicroGnuEmacs (MG),
> which is *not* GNU and has no official relationship to Richard Stallman 
> or the Free Software Foundation.  *Please*, don't bother these folks with
> questions on something that had nothing to do with!  The correct address 
> for comments and questions about MG is mg-support@ucbvax.berkeley.edu.

The comments in the README file STILL weren't the clearest, especially for
someone who doesn't know "what's a GNU?"
-- 
Bill Wisner
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