GNU Software

This area contains several programs from the Free Software Foundation,
a group working on a complete replacement for Un*x which will solve
performance and reliability problems with the Un*x OS and add new
functionality.
	Included are BISON (a YACC superset), an AWK, Gnu Emacs,
Gnu C, Gnu C++, and several more. The VMS binaries for a bootstrap
Gnu C for VMS are included also.
	Please note that these utilities are primarily for GNU with
VMS variants in some cases. Also, Gnu C is a BETA version. It is fairly
usable nonetheless, and version 1.22 here is quite recent.
	When Gnu C finishes compiling all of Berkeley Un*x, it will
be called a "real" C. (This effort is reportedly going very well.)
	Gnu C has been reported to generate much better code than
VAX11 C and to emulate Un*x C better also.
	Complete sources to all files are present, but are presented
in compressed TAR saveset form. Tools able to pull these distributions
apart under VMS are furnished in the [vax000.tools] directory on these
tapes.

	Thanks to Richard Stallman et. al. for this software.