========> [LT94A.ANTIVIRUS]AAAREADME.TXT;1 <======== These are antivirals for PC (from risc.ua.edu) and windows (same), for mac (from sumex-aim.stanford.edu), and for Amiga (from Fish disks). These are nationally used sources and well monitored. They are offered in the hope they will help make your computer use safer. ========> [LT94A.GNUSOFTWARE]AAAREADME.TXT;2 <======== This area contains utilities from the Free Software Foundation. Program names are as follows: AAAREADME.TXT;1 AUTOCONF111.TAR-GZ;1 BASH114.TAR-GZ;1 BINUTILS24.TAR-GZ;1 CALC202C.TAR-GZ;1 CLISP.README;1 DEJAGNU12.TAR-GZ;1 DESCRIPTIONS.GNUSTUFF;1 ED01.TAR-GZ;1 ELISP-MANUAL-1923.TAR-GZ EMACS1925.TAR-GZ;1 ES.README;1 F2C.README;1 FREELYAVAILABLETEXTS.TXT;1 GAMMA.README;1 GAS23.TAR-GZ;1 GAWK2155.TAR-GZ;1 GDBM172.TAR-GZ;1 GDBM173.TAR-GZ;1 GNUCHESS40_PL70.TAR-GZ;1 HP2XX-314.TAR-GZ;1 ISPELL3_1_04.TAR-GZ;1 MAKE371.TAR-GZ;1 MVI_1_11.TAR_Z;1 NVI.README;1 OBST_3_5.TAR-GZ;1 OLEO16.TAR-GZ;1 OOPS.README;1 PROGRAM-INDEX.TXT;1 RC.README;1 RX005.TAR-GZ;1 SED205.TAR-GZ;1 SH-UTILS110.TAR-GZ;1 TCLOBST-1-1.TAR-GZ;1 UUCP105.TAR-GZ;1 UUCPDOC105.TAR-GZ;1 X11.README;1 The following describes some of the FSF utilities. Not all are on this tape; previous tapes should be consulted for older ones. This tape contains those items updates since thelast (fall 1993) one. * Autoconf (SrcCD, UtilT) Autoconf produces shell scripts which automatically configure source code packages. These scripts adapt the packages to many kinds of Unix-like systems without manual user intervention. Autoconf creates a script for a package from a template file which lists the operating system features which the package can use, in the form of `m4' macro calls. Most GNU programs now use Autoconf-generated configure scripts. * BASH (SrcCD, UtilT) The GNU shell, BASH (Bourne Again SHell), is compatible with the Unix `sh' and offers many extensions found in `csh' and `ksh'. BASH has job control, `csh'-style command history, and command-line editing (with Emacs and `vi' modes built-in and the ability to rebind keys) via the readline library. * Binutils (BinCD, LangT, SrcCD) The Binutils includes the programs: `ar', `c++filt', `demangle', `gprof', `ld', `nlmconv', `nm', `objcopy', `objdump', `ranlib', `size', `strings', & `strip'. Binutils Version 2 is completely rewritten to use the BFD library. The GNU linker `ld' emits source-line numbered error messages for multiply-defined symbols and undefined references. `nlmconv' converts object files into Novell NetWare Loadable Modules. The `objdump' program can disassemble code for a29k, ALPHA, H8/300, H8/500, HP-PA, i386, i960, m68k, m88k, MIPS, SH, SPARC, & Z8000 processors, and can display other data such as symbols and relocations from any file format understood by BFD. Also see "Project GNU Status Report". * Calc (EmcsT, SrcCD) Calc (written by Dave Gillespie in Emacs Lisp) is an extensible, advanced desk calculator and mathematical tool that runs as part of GNU Page 2 Emacs. It comes with source for the `Calc Manual' and reference card, which serves as a tutorial and reference. If you wish, you can use Calc just as a simple four-function calculator, but it provides additional features including choice of algebraic or RPN (stack-based) entry, logarithmic functions, trigonometric and financial functions, arbitrary precision, complex numbers, vectors, matrices, dates, times, infinities, sets, algebraic simplification, differentiation, and integration. Calc also outputs to `gnuplot'. * GNU Chess (UtilT, SrcCD) GNU Chess is a program that plays chess with you. It is written entirely in the C language and has been ported to the PC, the Cray-2 & numerous other machines. It has also been ported to other operating systems, including Microsoft Windows and MS-DOS, though these versions are not supported by the maintainer. There are both text and X display interfaces. GNU Chess implements many specialized features including the null move heuristic, a hash table with aging, the history heuristic (another form of the earlier killer heuristic), caching of static evaluations, and a sophisticated database which lets it play the first several moves in the game quickly. GNU Chess won the Uniform Platform event held in August 1992 in London, England. Nine programs competed, running on identical hardware. GNU Chess is primarily supported by Stuart Cracraft on behalf of the FSF. Stuart Cracraft P.O. Box 2841 Laguna Hills, CA 92653 USA Phone: (714) 770-8532 E-mail: `cracraft@ai.mit.edu' * `cpio' (UtilD, UtilT, SrcCD) `cpio' is an alternative archive program with all the features of SVR4 `cpio', including support for the final POSIX 1003.1 `ustar' standard. `mt' a program to position magnetic tapes is included with `cpio'. * CVS (UtilT, SrcCD) CVS, the Concurrent Version System, manages software revision and release control in a multi-developer, multi-directory, multi-group environment. It works best in conjunction with RCS versions 4 and above, but will parse older RCS formats with the loss of CVS's fancier features. See Berliner, Brian, "CVS-II: Parallelizing Software Development," `Proceedings of the Winter 1990 USENIX Association Conference'. * DejaGnu (LangT, SrcCD) DejaGnu is a framework for testing other programs that provides a single front end for all tests. The flexibility and consistency of the DejaGnu Page 3 framework make it easy to write tests for any program. DejaGnu comes with `expect' and Tcl. * Diffutils (UtilD, UtilT, SrcCD) GNU `diff' compares files showing line-by-line changes in several flexible formats. It is much faster than traditional Unix versions. The Diffutils distribution contains `diff', `diff3', `sdiff', and `cmp'. * DJGPP (BinCD, DjgppD) DJ Delorie has ported GCC/G++ 2.5.7 to the i386 MS-DOS platform. The DJGPP package also contains a 32-bit 80386 DOS extender with symbolic debugger; development libraries; and ports of Bison, `flex', GAS, and the GNU binary utilities. Full source code is provided. DJGPP supports SVGA (up to 1024x768), XMS & VDISK memory allocation, `himem.sys', VCPI (e.g. QEMM, DESQview, & 386MAX), and DPMI (e.g. Windows 3.x, OS/2, QEMM, & QDPMI). It is available via FTP from `ftp.clarkson.edu' in `/pub/msdos/djgpp'. You can subscribe to a mailing list on DJGPP by sending your e-mail address to `djgpp-request@sun.soe.clarkson.edu'. In addition, the FSF distributes it on floppy disks and on the Compiler Tools Binaries CD-ROM. See the description for GCC in this section for more information. * `dld' (LangT, SrcCD) `dld' is a dynamic linker written by W. Wilson Ho. Linking your program with the `dld' library allows you to dynamically load object files into the running binary. Currently supported are VAX (Ultrix), Sun 3 (SunOS 3.4 and 4.0), SPARC (SunOS 4.0), Sequent Symmetry (Dynix), and Atari ST. * `doschk' (UtilT, SrcCD) This program is intended as a utility to help software developers ensure that their source file names are distinguishable on System V platforms with 14-character filenames and on MS-DOS with 11 character filenames. * `ecc' (UtilT, SrcCD) `ecc' is a Reed-Solomon error correction checking program, which can correct three byte errors in a block of 255 bytes and detect more severe errors. * GNU Emacs 19 (EmcsT, SrcCD) Unlike some other recent derivations of Emacs, GNU Emacs 19 continues to work on character-only terminals as well as under the X Window System. New features in Emacs 19 include: multiple X windows ("frames" to Emacs), with a separate X window for the minibuffer or with a minibuffer attached to each X window; property lists associated with regions of text in a buffer; multiple fonts and colors defined by those properties; simplified and improved processing of function keys, mouse clicks and Page 4 mouse movement; X selection processing, including clipboard selections; hooks to be run if point or mouse moves outside a certain range; menu bars and popup menus defined by keymaps; scrollbars; before and after change hooks; source-level debugging of Emacs Lisp programs; European character sets support; floating point numbers; improved buffer allocation, using a new mechanism capable of returning storage to the system when a buffer is killed; interfacing with the X resource manager; GNU configuration scheme support; good RCS support; & many updated libraries. GNU Emacs 19.22 is known to work on (in hardware order): Bull DPX/2 2nn & 3nn (SVR3) & sps7 (SVR2); Clipper; Cubix QBx (SysV); DEC MIPS (Ultrix 4.2 & OSF/1, not VMS); Motorola Delta 147 & 187 (SVR3, SVR4, & m88kbcs); Elxsi 6400 (SysV); Gould Power Node & NP1 (BSD 4.2 & 4.3); Honeywell XPS100 (SysV); HP9000 series 200, 300, 700, 800 (BSD 4.3 or HP-UX 7, 8, 9); i386 & i486 (386BSD, AIX, BSDI/386, FreeBSD, Esix, ISC, Linux, NetBSD, SCO3.2v4 with ODT, SysV, Xenix); RS6000 (AIX 3.2); RT/PC (AIX or BSD); Iris 4D (Irix 4.x & 5.x); National Semiconductor 32K (Genix); NeXT (BSD or Mach 2 w/ NeXTStep 3.0); Prime EXL (SysV); Pyramid (BSD); Sequent Symmetry (BSD); Sun 3 & 4, SPARC 1, 1+, 2, 10 & Classic (SunOS 4.0, 4.1, Solaris 2); Tadpole 68k (SysV); Tektronix XD88 (SVR3) & 4300 (BSD); & Titan P2 & P3 (SysV). In operating system order: AIX (i386, RS6000, RT/PC); BSD 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 (i386, Gould Power Node & NP1, HP9000 series 300, NeXT, Pyramid, Symmetry, Tektronix 4300, RT/PC); Esix (i386); Genix (ns32k); HP-UX 7, 8, 9 (HP 9000 series 200, 300, 700, 800, but not 500); Irix 4 & 5 (Iris 4D); ISC (i386); Linux (i386); NetBSD (i386, HP9000 series 300); Mach 2 & 3 (i386, NeXT); SCO 3.2v4 (i386); SVR2 (Bull sps7); SVR3 (Bull DPX/2 2nn & 3nn, Motorola Delta 147 & 187, Tektronix XD88); SVR4 (Motorola Delta 147 & 187); Solaris 2 (SPARC 1, 1+, 2, 10, Classic); SunOS 4.0, 4.1 (Sun 3 & 4, SPARC 1, 1+, 2, 10 & Classic); Ultrix 4.2 (DEC MIPS); & Xenix (i386). Other configurations supported by Emacs 18 should work with few changes; as users tell us more about their experiences with different systems, we will augment the list. Also see "Project GNU Status Report". * `es' (UtilT, SrcCD) This is an extensible shell based on `rc' that has first class functions, lexical scope, an exception system, and rich return values (i.e. functions can return values other than just numbers). Like `rc', it is great for both interactive use and for scripting, particularly because its quoting rules are much less baroque than the C or Bourne shells. * `expect' (LangT, SrcCD) `expect' runs scripts to conduct dialogs with programs. It is distributed along with Tcl and DejaGnu. * `f2c' (LangT, SrcCD) `f2c' converts Fortran-77 source files into C or C++, which can then be Page 5 compiled with GCC. * Fax (UtilT, SrcCD) Fax is the freely-available MIT AI Lab fax spooling system, which provides Group 3 fax transmission and reception services for a networked Unix system. It requires a faxmodem which conforms to the new EIA-592 Asynchronous Facsimile DCE Control Standard, Service Class 2. * Fileutils (UtilD, UtilT, SrcCD) Fileutils work on files: `chgrp', `chmod', `chown', `cp', `dd', `df', `dir', `du', `install', `ln', `ls', `mkdir', `mkfifo', `mknod', `mv', `mvdir', `rm', `rmdir', `touch', & `vdir'. Only some of these are on the Selected Utilities diskettes. * `find' (UtilD, UtilT, SrcCD) `find' is frequently used both interactively and in shell scripts to find files which match certain criteria and perform arbitrary operations on them. `xargs' and `locate' are also included. * `finger' (UtilT, SrcCD) GNU Finger, which serves as a direct replacement for existing finger programs, solves this problem. For sites with many hosts, a single host may be designated as the finger "server" host. This host collects information about who is logged in to other hosts at that site. If a user at site A wants to know about users logged on at site B, a single query to any machine at the site will return complete information. * `flex' (LangT, UtilD, SrcCD) `flex' is a mostly-compatible replacement for the `lex' scanner generator, written by Vern Paxson of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. `flex' generates far more efficient scanners than `lex' does. Sources for the `Flex Manual' and reference card are included. * Fontutils (UtilT, SrcCD) The Fontutils can create fonts for use with Ghostscript or TeX, starting with a scanned type image and converting the bitmaps to outlines. They also contain general conversion programs and other utilities. * GAS (BinCD, LangT, SrcCD) The GNU assembler has been rewritten to use the BFD library. Native assembly works for: Sun 3, 4, & SPARC (SunOS 4.1 or Solaris 2); i386 (AIX, 386BSD, BSDI/386, Linux); m68k (BSD, HP-UX, Convergent Technologies SysV); MIPS (Ultrix, Irix); Hitachi H8/500; & VAX (BSD, Ultrix, VMS). Cross assembling can be done for: i386 (SCO, go32 MS-DOS/DJGPP); ebmon29k; Hitachi H8/300; i960 (COFF); MIPS ECOFF (Ultrix, Iris, MIPS Magnum); Nindy 960; vxworks (68k or 960); & Zilog Z8000. Page 6 * GAWK (LangT, SrcCD) GAWK is upwardly compatible with the System V Release 4 version of `awk'. Texinfo source for the `GAWK Manual' comes with the software. * GCC (BinCD, DjgppD, LangT, SrcCD) Version 2 of the GNU C compiler supports three languages: C, C++ and Objective C; the source file name suffix or a compiler option selects the language. The front end support for Objective C was donated by NeXT. The runtime support needed to run Objective C programs is now distributed with GCC (this does not include any Objective C classes aside from `object'). As much as possible, G++ is kept compatible with the evolving draft ANSI standard, but not with `cfront' (AT&T's compiler), which has been diverging from ANSI. The GNU C compiler is a fairly portable optimizing compiler which performs automatic register allocation, common sub-expression elimination, invariant code motion from loops, induction variable optimizations, constant propagation and copy propagation, delayed popping of function call arguments, tail recursion elimination, integration of inline functions and frame pointer elimination, instruction scheduling, loop unrolling, filling of delay slots, leaf function optimization, optimized multiplication by constants, a certain amount of common subexpression elimination (CSE) between basic blocks (though not all of the supported machine descriptions provide for scheduling or delay slots), a feature for assigning attributes to instructions, and many local optimizations that are automatically deduced from the machine description. Function-wide CSE has been written, but needs to be cleaned up before it can be installed. Position-independent code is supported on the 68k, i386, Hitachi Slt, Hitachi H8/300, Clipper, 88k, SPARC & SPARClite. GCC can open-code most arithmetic on 64-bit values (type `long long int'). It supports extended floating point (type `long double') on the 68k; other machines will follow. GCC supports full ANSI C, traditional C and GNU C extensions. GNU C has been extended to support nested functions, nonlocal gotos, and taking the address of a label. GCC can generate a.out, COFF, ELF & OSF-Rose files when used with a suitable assembler. It can produce debugging information in these formats: BSD stabs, COFF, ECOFF, ECOFF with stabs, & DWARF. GCC generates code for: a29k, Alpha, ARM, Convex cN, Clipper, Elxsi, H8300, HP-PA (1.0 and 1.1) i370, i386, i486, i860, i960, m68k, m68020, m88k, MIPS, ns32k, Pyramid, ROMP, RS6000, SH, SPARC, SPARClite, VAX, and we32k. Operating systems supported include: AIX, ACIS, AOS, BSD, Clix, Ctix, DG/UX, Dynix, Genix, HP-UX, ISC, Irix, Linux, Luna, LynxOS, Mach, Minix, NeWSOS, OSF, OSF-Rose, RISCOS, SCO, Solaris 2, SunOS 4, SysV, Ultrix, Unos, & VMS. Page 7 The old (version 1) machine descriptions for the Alliant, Tahoe and Spur (as well as a new port for the Tron) do not work, but are still included in the distribution in case someone wants to work on them. Using the configuration scheme for GCC, building a cross-compiler is as easy as building a compiler for the same target machine. Version 2 supports more general calling conventions: it can pass arguments "by reference" and can preallocate the space for stack arguments. GCC 2 on the SPARC uses the SPARC conventions for structure arguments and return values. Source for the GCC manual, `Using and Porting GNU CC', is included with the compiler. The manual describes how to run and install the GNU C compiler, and how to port it to new systems. It describes new features and incompatibilities of the compiler, but people not familiar with C will also need a good reference on the C programming language. Also see "Project GNU Status Report". * GDB (BinCD, LangT, SrcCD) In GDB, object files and symbol tables are now read via the BFD library, which allows a single copy of GDB to debug programs of multiple object file formats such as a.out and COFF. Other new features include command language improvements, remote debugging over serial lines or TCP/IP, and watchpoints (breakpoints triggered when the value of an expression changes). Exception handling, SunOS shared libraries and C++ multiple inheritance are only supported when used with GCC version 2. Both X and GNU Emacs user interfaces to GDB are available, in addition to its command line interpreter. GDB uses a standard remote interface to a simulator library which (so far) contains simulators for the Zilog Z8001/2, the Hitachi H8/300, H8/500 & Super-H. GDB can perform cross-debugging. To say that GDB *targets* a platform means that it can perform native or cross-debugging for it. To say that GDB can *host* a given platform means that it can be built on it, but cannot necessarily debug native programs. GDB can: * *target* & *host*: DEC Alpha (OSF/1), Amiga 3000 (Amix), DECstation 3100 & 5000 (Ultrix), HP 9000/300 (BSD), IBM RS/6000 (AIX), i386 (BSD, SCO, Linux, LynxOS), Motorola Delta m88k (System V), NCR 3000 (SVR4), SGI Iris (MIPS running Irix V3 & V4), SONY News (NewsOS 3.x), Sun-3 & SPARC (SunOS 4.1, Solaris 2.0) & Ultracomputer (29K running Sym1). * *target*, but not *host*: i960 Nindy, AMD 29000 (COFF & a.out), Fujitsu SPARClite, Hitachi H8/300, m68k & m68332. * *host*, but not *target*: Intel 386 (Mach), IBM RT/PC (AIX) & HP/Apollo 68k (BSD). In addition, GDB can use the symbol tables emitted by the compilers Page 8 supplied by most vendors of MIPS-based machines, including DEC. (These symbol tables are in a format which almost nobody else uses.) Source for the manual `Debugging with GDB' and a reference card are included. * `gdbm' (LangT, UtilD, SrcCD) The `gdbm' library is the GNU replacement for the traditional `dbm' and `ndbm' libraries. It implements a database using quick lookup by hashing. `gdbm' does not need sparse file formats (unlike its Unix counterparts). * Ghostscript (UtilT, SrcCD) Ghostscript is GNU's graphics language which is almost fully compatible with Postscript (see "Project GNU Status Report"). * Ghostview (UtilT, SrcCD) Ghostview provides an X11 user interface for the Ghostscript interpreter. Ghostview and Ghostscript function as two cooperating programs; Ghostview creates a viewing window and Ghostscript draws in it. There is a port for Ghostview to MS-Windows. * `gmp' (LangT, SrcCD) GNU MP is a library for arbitrary precision arithmetic on signed integers and rational numbers. It has a rich set of functions with a regular interface. * GNATS (UtilT, SrcCD) Gnats (GNats: A Tracking System) is a bug-tracking system. It is based upon the paradigm of a central site or organization which receives problem reports and negotiates their resolution by electronic mail. Although it's been used primarily as a software bug-tracking system so far, it is sufficiently generalized so that it could be used for handling system administration issues, project management or any number of other applications. * `gnuplot' (UtilT, SrcCD) `gnuplot' is an interactive program for plotting mathematical expressions and data. It handles both curves (2 dimensions) and surfaces (3 dimensions). Curiously, the program was neither written nor named for the GNU Project; the name is a coincidence. * GnuGo (UtilT, SrcCD) GnuGo plays the game of Go (Wei-Chi); it is not yet very sophisticated. * `gperf' (LangT, SrcCD) `gperf' is a "perfect" hash-table generation utility. There are actually two implementations of `gperf', one written in C and one in C++. Both will produce hash functions in either C or C++. Page 9 * GNU Graphics (UtilT, SrcCD) GNU Graphics is a set of programs which produce plots from ASCII or binary data. It supports output to Tektronix 4010, Postscript, and the X Window System or compatible devices. Features include support for output in ln03 and TekniCAD TDA file formats; a replacement for the `spline' program; examples of shell scripts using `graph' and `plot'; a statistics toolkit; and the use of `configure' for installation. Existing ports need retesting. Contact Rich Murphey, `Rich@rice.edu', if you can help test/port it to anything beyond a SPARCstation. * `grep'/`egrep'/`fgrep' (UtilD, UtilT, SrcCD) The `[ef]grep' programs are GNU's versions of the Unix programs of the same name. They are much faster than the traditional Unix versions. * `groff' and `mgm' (UtilT, SrcCD) `groff' is a document formatting system, which includes implementations of `troff', `pic', `eqn', `tbl', `refer', the `man', `ms' and `mm' macros, as well as drivers for Postscript, TeX dvi format, and typewriter-like devices. Also included is a modified version of the Berkeley `me' macros and an enhanced version of the X11 `xditview' previewer. `mgm' is a macro package for `groff'. It is almost compatible with the DWB `mm' macros and has several extensions. Also see "Project GNU Status Report". * `gzip' (DjgppD, EmcsT, LangT, SrcCD, UtilT) Some of the contents of our tape and FTP distributions are compressed. We have software on our tapes and FTP sites to uncompress these files. Due to patent troubles with `compress', we have switched to another compression program, `gzip'. `gzip' can expand LZW-compressed files but uses a different algorithm for compression which generally produces better results. It also uncompresses files compressed with System V's `pack' program. * `hello' (UtilT, SrcCD) The GNU `hello' program produces a familiar, friendly greeting. It allows non-programmers to use a classic computer science tool which would otherwise be unavailable to them. Because it is protected by the GNU General Public License, users are free to share and change it. Like any truly useful program, `hello' provides a built-in mail reader. * `hp2xx' (UtilT, SrcCD) GNU hp2xx reads HP-GL files, decomposes all drawing commands into elementary vectors, and converts them into a variety of vector and raster output formats. It is also an HP-GL previewer. Currently supported Page 10 vector formats include encapsulated Postscript, Uniplex RGIP, Metafont and various special TeX-related formats, and simplified HP-GL (line drawing only) for imports. Raster formats supported include IMG, PBM, PCX, & HP-PCL (including Deskjet & DJ5xxC support). Previewers work under X11 (Unix), OS/2 (PM & full screen), MS-DOS (SVGA, VGA, & HGC). * `indent' (UtilD, UtilT, SrcCD) GNU `indent' is a modified version of the freely-redistributable BSD program of the same name. It formats C source according to GNU coding standards by default, though the BSD default and other formats are available as options. Also see "Project GNU Status Report". * `ispell' (UtilT, SrcCD) Ispell is an interactive spell checker that suggests "near misses" as replacements for unrecognized words. System and user-maintained dictionaries can be used. Standalone and GNU Emacs interfaces are available. * JACAL *Not available from the FSF* JACAL is a symbolic mathematics system for the simplification and manipulation of equations and single and multiple-valued algebraic expressions constructed of numbers, variables, radicals, and algebraic functions, differential operators and holonomic functions. In addition, vectors and matrices of the above objects are included. JACAL was written in Scheme by Aubrey Jaffer. It comes with an IEEE P1178 and R4RS compliant version of Scheme ("SCM") written in C. SCM runs on Amiga, Atari-ST, MS-DOS, NOS/VE, VMS, Unix and similar systems. SLIB is a portable Scheme library used by JACAL. Get JACAL, SLIB, and SCM sources via anonymous FTP from either `nexus.yorku.ca' in `/pub/scheme/new', `altdorf.ai.mit.edu' in `/archive/scm' or `prep.ai.mit.edu' in `/pub/gnu/jacal'. The FSF is not distributing JACAL on any media. To receive an IBM PC floppy disk with the source and executable files, send $99.00 to: Aubrey Jaffer 84 Pleasant Street Wakefield, MA 01880 USA * `less' (UtilD, UtilT, SrcCD) `less' is a display paginator similar to `more' and `pg' but with various features (such as the ability to scroll backwards) that most pagers lack. * libg++ (BinCD, LangT, SrcCD) The GNU C++ library is an extensive collection of C++ `forest' classes, a new IOStream library for input/output routines, and support tools for use with G++. Among the classes supported are Obstacks, Page 11 multiple-precision Integers and Rationals, Complex numbers, arbitrary length Strings, BitSets, and BitStrings. There is also a set of pseudo-generic prototype files available for generating common container classes. Partial documentation in Texinfo format is included (not yet published on paper). * `m4' (UtilD, UtilT, SrcCD) GNU `m4' is an implementation of the traditional Unix macro processor. It is mostly SVR4 compatible, although it has some extensions (for example, handling more than 9 positional parameters to macros). `m4' also has built-in functions for including files, running shell commands, doing arithmetic, etc. * `make' (BinCD, EmcsT, LangT, UtilD, UtilT, SrcCD) GNU `make' supports POSIX 1003.2 and has all but a few obscure features of the BSD and System V versions of `make', as well as many of our own extensions. GNU extensions include long options, parallel compilation, conditional execution and functions for text manipulation. Texinfo source for the `Make Manual' comes with the program. GNU `make' is on several of our tapes because some native `make' programs lack the `VPATH' feature essential for using the GNU configure system to its full extent. A shell script is included to build GNU `make' on such systems. Also see "Project GNU Status Report". * MandelSpawn (UtilT, SrcCD) A parallel Mandelbrot generation program for the MIT X Window System. * mtools (UtilT, SrcCD) mtools is a set of public domain programs to allow Unix systems to read, write and manipulate files on an MS-DOS file system (usually a diskette). * MULE (SrcCD) MULE is a MULtilingual Enhancement to GNU Emacs 18. It can handle many character sets at once including Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, Greek, the ISO Latin-1 through Latin-5 character sets, Ukrainian, Russian, and other Cyrillic alphabets. A text buffer in MULE can contain a mixture of characters from these languages. To input any of these characters, you can use various input methods provided by MULE itself. In addition, if you use MULE under some terminal emulator (kterm, cxterm, or exterm), you can use its input methods. * NetHack (UtilT, SrcCD) NetHack is a display-oriented adventure game similar to Rogue. Both ASCII and X displays are supported. * NIH Class Library (LangT, SrcCD) The NIH Class Library (formerly known as "OOPS", Object-Oriented Program Page 12 Support) is a portable collection of G++ classes, similar to those in Smalltalk-80, which has been developed by Keith Gorlen of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), using the C++ programming language. * Octave (LangT) Octave is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations. It provides a convenient command line interface for solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically. Octave can do arithmetic for real and complex scalars and matrices, solve sets of nonlinear algebraic equations, integrate functions over finite and infinite intervals, and integrate systems of ordinary differential and differential-algebraic equations. Octave is available via anonymous ftp from `ftp.che.utexas.edu' in the directory `/pub/octave'. The files are in gzipped tar format (see the file `README' on `prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu'). The Octave distribution includes a 150+ page Texinfo manual. * Oleo (UtilT, SrcCD) Oleo is a spreadsheet program (better for you than the more expensive spreadsheets). It supports the X Window System and character-based terminals, and can output Embedded Postscript renditions of spreadsheets. Keybindings should be familiar to Emacs users and are configurable. Under X and in Postscript output, Oleo supports multiple, variable width fonts. Also see "Project GNU Status Report". * `p2c' (LangT, SrcCD) `p2c' is a Pascal-to-C translator written by Dave Gillespie. It is intended primarily for use on 32-bit machines, though porting it to convert code to work on 16-bit machines may be possible. * `patch' (UtilT, SrcCD) `patch' is our version of Larry Wall's program to take `diff's output and apply those differences to an original file to generate the modified version. * `perl' (LangT, SrcCD) Larry Wall's `perl' combines the features and capabilities of `sed', `awk', `sh' and C, as well as interfaces to all the system calls and many C library routines. Perl Mode for editing `perl' code comes with GNU Emacs 19. * `ptx' (UtilD, UtilT, SrcCD) `ptx' is the GNU version of `ptx', a permuted index generator. Among other things, it produces readable "KWIC" (KeyWords In Context) indexes without the need of `nroff'. There is an option to output TeX code. Page 13 * `rc' (UtilT, SrcCD) `rc' is a shell that features a C-like syntax (much more so than `csh') and far cleaner quoting rules than the C or Bourne shells. It's intended to be used interactively, but is also great for writing scripts. It inspired the shell `es'. * RCS (UtilD, UtilT, SrcCD) The Revision Control System, RCS, is used for version control and management of software projects. When used with GNU `diff', RCS can handle binary files (executables, object files, 8-bit data, etc). Also see the entry for "CVS". * `recode' (UtilT, SrcCD) `recode' converts files between character sets and usages. When exact transliterations are not possible, it may get rid of the offending characters or fall back on approximations. This program recognizes or produces nearly 150 different character sets and is able to transliterate files between almost any pair. Most RFC 1345 character sets are supported. * regex (LangT, SrcCD) The GNU regular expression library supports POSIX.2, except for internationalization features. In the past, it has been included in many GNU programs which use regex routines. Now it is finally available separately. * Scheme (SchmT, SrcCD) For information about Scheme, see "Contents of the Scheme Tape". The version on the Source Code CD-ROM only works under MS-DOS. * `screen' (UtilT, SrcCD) `screen' is a terminal multiplexor that runs several separate "screens" (ttys) on a single physical terminal. Each virtual terminal emulates a DEC VT100 plus several ANSI X3.64 and ISO 2022 functions. `screen' sessions can be detached and resumed later on a different terminal. * `sed' (UtilD, UtilT, SrcCD) `sed' is a stream-oriented version of `ed'. It is used copiously in shell scripts. GNU sed comes with the rx library, which is a faster version of regex. * Shellutils (UtilT, SrcCD) Shellutils are used interactively or in shell scripts: `basename', `date', `dirname', `echo', `env', `expr', `false', `groups', `id', `nice', `nohup', `printenv', `printf', `sleep', `stty', `su', `tee', `test', `true', `tty', `uname', `who', `whoami', & `yes'. Page 14 * GNU Shogi (UtilT, SrcCD) Shogi is a Japanese game similar to Chess; a major difference is that captured pieces can be returned into play. GNU Shogi has been created by modifying GNU Chess; GNU Shogi implements the same features as GNU Chess and uses similar heuristics. As a new feature, sequences of partial board patterns can be introduced in order to help the program play a good order of moves towards specific opening patterns. There is both a text and X display interface. GNU Shogi is primarily supported by Matthias Mutz on behalf of FSF. Matthias Mutz Universitaet Passau, FMI 94030 Passau Germany E-mail: `mutz@kirk.fmi.uni-passau.de' * Smalltalk (LangT, SrcCD) GNU Smalltalk is an interpreted object-oriented programming language system written in portable C. Features include an incremental garbage collector, a binary image save capability, the ability to invoke user-written C code and pass parameters to it, a GNU Emacs editing mode, optional byte-code compilation tracing and byte-code execution tracing, and automatically loaded per-user initialization files. Also see "Project GNU Status Report". * superopt (LangT, SrcCD) Superopt is a function sequence generator that uses an exhaustive generate-and-test approach to find the shortest instruction sequence for a given function. You provide the GNU superoptimizer a function, a CPU to generate code for, and how many instructions you can accept. Its application in GCC is described in the `ACM SIGPLAN PLDI'92' proceedings. Superopt supports: SPARC, m68k, m68020, m88k, IBM RS/6000, AMD 29000, Intel 80x86, Pyramid, DEC Alpha, & HP-PA. * `tar' (UtilT, SrcCD) GNU `tar' includes multivolume support, the ability to archive sparse files, automatic archive compression/decompression, remote archives and special features that allow `tar' to be used for incremental and full backups. Unfortunately GNU `tar' implements an early draft of the POSIX 1003.1 `ustar' standard which is different from the final standard. Adding support for the new changes in a backward-compatible fashion is not trivial. * Termcap Library (UtilT, SrcCD) The GNU Termcap library is a drop-in replacement for `libtermcap.a' on any system. It does not place an arbitrary limit on the size of Termcap entries, unlike most other Termcap libraries. Included is source for the `Termcap Manual' in Texinfo format. Page 15 * TeX *Not available from the FSF* TeX is document formatting system that handles complicated typesetting, including mathematics. It is the standard formatter for the GNU system. We do not distribute TeX because you can get it from the University of Washington, who serve as the center for maintenance of the Unix version of TeX. To order a full distribution written in `tar' on either a 1/4-inch 4-track QIC-24 cartridge or a 4mm DAT cartridge, send $210.00 to: Northwest Computing Support Center DR-10, Thomson Hall 35 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195 E-mail: `unixtex@u.washington.edu' Phone: (206) 543-6259 Please make checks payable to the University of Washington. Checks must be in U.S. Dollars, drawn on a U.S. bank. Prepaid orders are preferred but purchase orders are acceptable; however, purchase orders carry an extra charge of $10.00 to pay for invoice processing. Overseas sites: please add to the base cost $20.00 for shipment via air parcel post, or $30.00 for shipment via courier. Please check with the above for current prices and formats. * Texinfo (EmcsT, LangT, SrcCD, UtilD, UtilT) Texinfo is a set of utilities which generate printed manuals and online hypertext-style documentation (called "Info"), and provide means for reading the online versions. Version 3 contains both GNU Emacs Lisp and standalone C programs, as well as source for the `Texinfo Manual'. Also see "Project GNU Status Report". * Textutils (UtilT, SrcCD) The Textutils programs manipulate textual data: `cat', `cksum', `comm', `csplit', `cut', `expand', `fold', `head', `join', `nl', `od', `paste', `pr', `sort', `split', `sum', `tac', `tail', `tr', `unexpand', `uniq', & `wc'. * Tcl (LangT, SrcCD) Tcl is an embeddable tool command language. `expect' and DejaGnu work with and use Tcl. * Tile Forth (LangT, SrcCD) Tile Forth is a 32-bit implementation of the Forth-83 standard written in C, allowing it to be easily moved between different computers (traditionally, Forth implementations are written in assembler to use the underlying hardware as optimally as possible, but this also makes them less portable). Page 16 * `time' (UtilT, SrcCD) `time' is used to report statistics (usually from a shell) about the amount of user, system and real time used by a process. * `tput' (UtilT, SrcCD) `tput' is a portable way to allow shell scripts to use special terminal capabilities. GNU `tput' uses the Termcap database, rather than Terminfo as most implementations do. * UUCP (UtilT, SrcCD) This version of UUCP was written by Ian Lance Taylor, and is the standard UUCP system for GNU. It currently supports the `f', `g' (in all window and packet sizes), `G', `t' and `e' protocols, as well a Zmodem protocol and two new bidirectional protocols. If you have a Berkeley sockets library, it can make TCP connections. If you have TLI libraries, it can make TLI connections. * `uuencode' (UtilT, SrcCD) Uuencode and uudecode are used to transmit binary files over transmission mediums that do not support other than simple ASCII data. * `wdiff' (UtilT, SrcCD) `wdiff' compares two files, finding which words have been deleted or added to the first in order to obtain the second. We hope eventually to integrate it, as well as some ideas from a similar program called `spiff', into future releases of GNU `diff'. ========> [LT94A.INFO_AND_KERMIT_REF]AAAREADME.TXT;2 <======== KERMIT distribution, in "flat" easily available form on virtual compressing disk. The Kermit distribution is available in two forms on the tapes this time: compressed in ZIP archives, and on a compressing virtual disk. The virtual disk software to access the virtual disk is VMSINSTALlable and will let you create a disk on VAX or AXP VMS (AXP VMS 1.5 or before; the 6.1 version will be available shortly) which has all the Kermit material. Its access speed is comparable to normal disk, and it can be used normally once started. To start it, point a /system/exec logical KERSQUASH at this directory and device and run the SQUASH_KERMIT.STARTUP procedure from a fully privileged account. You will shortly see a device FRA1: on your system that will be mounted and available and in which the full Kermit tree is available in directory tree [vlt94a.kermit...]. To install readonly SQUASH, from a privileged account type the command $ @SYS$UPDATE:VMSINSTAL SQUASH010 disk:[vms94a.kermit_flat] (where you replace "disk:" by the real disk name containing this directory.) An example, assuming you have the material on DKB200: (and after using VMSINSTAL to install readonly Squash: $ ASS/SYS/EXEC DKB200:[VMS94A.KERMIT_FLAT] KERSQUASH: $ @KERSQUASH:SQUASH_KERMIT.STARTUP Note this runs a detached process which handles the on the fly decompression. The VMSINSTAL command procedure here installs only a read-only version of SQUASH. The full version can be ordered from Acorn Software (508 266 9800, or sales@acornsw.com) and a 30-day demo is available on Internet at dmc.com. The login screen there when you FTP to "anonymous" will give the locations. The SQUASH distribution is available in normal and ZIP-compressed format. Unzip can be found on these tapes or CD. ========> [VMS94A.MX041]AAAREADME.TXT;1 <======== Message Exchange (MX) V4.1 [20-Jun-1994] Copyright ) 1993, 1994, MadGoat Software. All rights reserved. Message Exchange (MX) is electronic mail software for OpenVMS VAX systems running VMS V5.0 or later, including OpenVMS V6.0, and OpenVMS AXP systems running OpenVMS AXP V1.0 or later. It supports Internet mail over CMU-OpenVMS TCP/IP, VMS/ULTRIX Connection, TGV MultiNet, Process Software's TCPware, and Wollongong's PathWay; BITNET mail over Jnet; and UUCP mail over DECUS UUCP. Also included is support for SMTP message transfers over DECnet and X.25 (using VAX P.S.I). MX uses VMS Mail for local message entry and delivery, and includes support for mailing lists and mail-based file servers. ========> [LT94A.NIELAND]AAAREADME.TXT;1 <======== This area contains the entire X11R6 distribution, including the contributions area. This is the latest X windows software release from MIT and contains many new features and improvements. The original TAR files (on the tapes, compressed in gzip format) are present, so sites with filesystems that are case sensitive will not be inconvenienced. Contributed by Ted Nieland, Nieland@Ted.HCST.Com. ========> [LT94A.XCONTRIBS]AAAREADME.TXT;3 <======== This area contains a number of newer contributed items for X windows (from ftp.x.org). See ftpxorg.list for information on the packages' functions. Files included here are: FTPXORG.LIST;1 AAAREADME.TXT;1 COLOUR-XTERM-R5-PATCH.GZ;1 COLOUR-XTERM-R5-PATCH.README;1 COMBOBOX.DOC;1 COMBOBOX.TAR-GZ;1 FSF.GNU;1 IMAGEMAGICK-3_0.TAR-GZ;1 MANDELSPAWN-0_07.TAR_Z;1 SEYON-2_03.TAR_Z;1 SEYON-README.;1 UTREE304A-UM.TAR_Z;1 WCL-2_5.TAR_Z;1 XLANDER.PATCH01$5N$Z;1 XLANDER.PATCH02$5N$Z;1 XLANDER.SHAR_Z;1 XPILOT-3_1_3.TAR-GZ;1 XRECPLAY.TAR_Z;1 XSERVERS-NONUNIX.TXT_Z;1 XTRAP-CLIENTS-3_3.TAR_Z;1 XTRAPV32_DOC.TAR_Z;1 XTRAPV32_MITFINAL.TAR_Z;1 XTRAPV32_R4.TAR_Z;1 XTRAPV33_X11R5.TAR_Z;1 XTRAP_GRABPATCH.SRC;1 XTRAP_SLEEPPATCH.SRC;1 XTRAP_V31A.TAR_Z;1 XTRAP_V31AVMS.TAR_Z;1