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1.1 root 1: GNU Emacs availability information, 10 April 1987
2: Copyright (C) 1986, 1987 Richard M. Stallman
3:
4: Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute
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8: GNU Emacs is legally owned by the Free Software Foundation, but we
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10: public, since all software ought to be the common property of mankind.
11:
12: The foundation permits everyone to have and run copies of GNU Emacs,
13: at no charge, and to redistribute copies under certain conditions
14: which are designed to make sure that that all modified versions of GNU
15: Emacs remain as free as the versions we distribute. These conditions
16: are stated in the document "GNU Emacs General Public License", a copy
17: of which is required to be distributed with every copy of GNU Emacs.
18: It is usually in a file named COPYING in the same directory as this
19: file.
20:
21: If you do not know anyone to get a copy of GNU Emacs from, you can
22: order a tape from the Free Software Foundation. We distribute Emacs
23: version 18 on 1600bpi industry standard mag tape in tar format. We
24: will also ship it on 1/4" cartridge tapes in tar format and on 1600bpi
25: magtape in VMS interchange format. We also distribute nicely typeset
26: copies of the Emacs manual. See the order form at the end of this
27: file.
28:
29: If you have Internet access, you can copy the latest Emacs
30: distribution from host prep.ai.mit.edu. There are several ways to do
31: this; see the file `FTP' in the same directory as this file for more
32: information. Even better, get the latest version of the file from
33: `/u2/emacs/etc/FTP' on prep.ai.mit.edu for the most current
34: arrangements. It may also be possible to copy Emacs via uucp; the
35: file `FTP' contains information on that too.
36:
37: Emacs has been run on both Berkeley Unix and System V Unix, on a
38: variety of types of cpu. It also works on VMS and on Apollo
39: computers, though with some deficiencies that reflect problems in
40: these operating systems. See the file MACHINES in this directory for
41: a full list of machines that GNU Emacs has been tested on, with
42: machine-specific installation notes and warnings.
43:
44: Note that there is significant variation between Unix systems
45: supposedly running the same version of Unix; it is possible that what
46: works in GNU Emacs for me does not work on your system due to such an
47: incompatibility. Since I must avoid reading Unix source code, I
48: cannot even guess what such problems may exist.
49:
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55: customers to keep secret anything they are told or given as part of
56: the support. It is usually in a file named SERVICE in the same
57: directory as this file.
58:
59: However, I plan to continue to improve GNU Emacs and keep it reliable,
60: so please send me any complaints and suggestions you have. I will
61: probably fix anything that is clearly (to me) a malfunction. I may
62: make an improvement if I consider it worth the effort, but you should
63: not be surprised if I don't think I can spare time for it. I hope to
64: keep Emacs stable now, and avoid putting much time into it, so I can
65: work on other parts of the GNU system.
66:
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73: GNU Emacs with every computer you deliver. The same copying
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76: if you estimate what it would cost to distribute some commercial
77: product and divide it by five, that is a good amount.
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81: to you. If you are glad that I developed GNU Emacs and distribute it
82: as freeware, rather than following the obstructive and antisocial
83: practices typical of software developers, reward me for doing so!
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86: software to be distributed on the same basis as GNU Emacs. Eventually
87: we will have a complete imitation of the Unix operating system, called
88: GNU (Gnu's Not Unix), which will run Unix user programs. For more
89: information on GNU, see the file GNU in this directory.
90:
91:
92: Richard M Stallman
93: Chief GNUisance,
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97: 10 April 1987
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124:
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126:
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128: structured documentation system, included with GNU Emacs
129: This manual describes how to write Texinfo documents).
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