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1.1 root 1: GNU Emacs availability information, 22 Nov 1985
2: Copyright (C) 1985 Richard M. Stallman
3:
4: Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute
5: verbatim copies of this document provided that the
6: copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved.
7:
8: GNU Emacs is legally owned by me, Richard Stallman, its author,
9: but I regard myself actually as its custodian on behalf of the
10: public, since all software ought to be the common property of
11: mankind.
12:
13: I permit everyone to have and run copies of GNU Emacs, at no
14: charge, and to redistribute copies under certain conditions which
15: are designed to make sure that that all modified versions of GNU
16: Emacs remain as free as the versions I distribute. These
17: conditions are stated in the document "GNU Emacs General Public
18: License", a copy of which is required to be distributed with
19: every copy of GNU Emacs. It is usually in a file named COPYING
20: in the same directory as this file.
21:
22: If you do not know anyone to get a copy of GNU Emacs from, you
23: can order a tape from the Free Software Foundation. We distribute
24: Emacs in tar format on 1600bpi industry standard mag tapes. We
25: also distributed nicely typeset copies of the Emacs manual.
26: See the order form at the end of this file.
27:
28: If you have Internet access, you can copy the latest Emacs
29: distribution from host PREP.AI.MIT.ARPA. There are several ways to do
30: this; see the file `/u2/emacs/GETTING.GNU.SOFTWARE' for info on
31: current arrangements.
32:
33: See the file MACHINES in this directory for a list of machines
34: that GNU Emacs has been tested on. Emacs has been run on both
35: Berkeley Unix and System V Unix, on a variety of types of cpu.
36:
37: Note that there is significant variation between Unix systems
38: supposedly running the same version of Unix; it is possible that
39: what works in GNU Emacs for me does not work on your system due
40: to such an incompatibility. Since I must avoid reading Unix
41: source code, I cannot even guess what such problems may exist.
42:
43: GNU Emacs is distributed with no warranty (see the General Public
44: License for full details), and neither I nor the Free Software
45: Foundation promises any kind of support or assistance to users.
46: The foundation keeps a list of people who are willing to offer
47: support and assistance for hire. We will list anyone who pays a
48: $50 listing fee.
49:
50: However, I plan to continue to improve GNU Emacs and keep it
51: reliable, so please send me any complaints and suggestions you
52: have. I will probably fix anything that is clearly (to me) a
53: malfunction. I may make an improvement if I consider it worth
54: the effort, but you should not be surprised if I don't think I
55: can spare time for it. I hope to keep Emacs stable now, and
56: avoid putting much time into it, so I can work on other parts of
57: the GNU system.
58:
59: If you are on the Internet, report bugs to
60: [email protected]; on Usenet, use the address
61: ...!ucbvax!bug-gnu-emacs%prep.ai.mit.edu. Otherwise, phone the
62: foundation at (617) 876-3296, or write to the address listed
63: below.
64:
65: If you are a computer manufacturer, I encourage you to ship a
66: copy of GNU Emacs with every computer you deliver. The same
67: copying permission terms apply to computer manufacturers as to
68: everyone else.
69:
70: If you like GNU Emacs, please express your satisfaction with a
71: donation: send me or the Foundation what you feel Emacs has been
72: worth to you. If you are glad that I developed GNU Emacs and
73: distribute it as freeware, rather than following the obstructive
74: and antisocial practices typical of software developers, reward
75: me for doing so!
76:
77: Your donations will help to support the development of more
78: useful software to be distributed on the same basis as GNU Emacs.
79: Eventually we will have a complete imitation of the Unix
80: operating system, called GNU (Gnu's Not Unix), which will run
81: Unix user programs. For more information on GNU, see the file
82: GNU in this directory.
83:
84:
85: Richard M Stallman
86: Chief GNUisance,
87: President of the Free Software Foundation
88:
89:
90: Free Software Foundation Order Form
91: March 26, 1986
92:
93: All software and publications are distributed with permission to
94: copy and redistribute.
95:
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98: ________ $150 GNU Emacs source code, on a 1600bpi industry standard
99: mag tape in tar format. The tape also contains
100: MIT Scheme (a dialect of Lisp), hack (a rogue-like game)
101: and bison (a compatible replacement for yacc).
102:
103: ________ $15 GNU Emacs manual. This includes a reference card.
104: These manuals are phototypeset and offset printed.
105: We may have both plastic ring binding and standard
106: paperback book binding.
107:
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109:
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111:
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115: the "innocuous" cover.
116:
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118:
119: If that's out of stock, do you want to wait? ______
120:
121: Thus, a tape and one manual come to $165.
122:
123: ________ $60 Box of six GNU Emacs manuals, shipped book rate.
124:
125: ________ $1 GNU Emacs reference card. Or:
126:
127: ________ $5 Packet of ten GNU Emacs reference cards.
128:
129:
130: Shipping outside North America is normally by surface mail. For air
131: mail delivery, please add $15 per tape or manual, $1 for an individual
132: reference card, or 50 cents per card in quantity ten or more.
133:
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135: please add 5% sales tax to all prices.
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