the README file.

<BR></P>

<P><I>glibc-1.08</I>  (GLIBC_1_)&#151;This directory contains a beta release of the GNU C Library. The library is ANSI C-1989 and POSIX 1003.1-1990 compliant and has most of the functions specified in POSIX 1003.2. It is upwardly compatible with the 4.4 
BSD C library and includes many System V functions, plus GNU extensions. Version 1.08 adds support for Sun RPC, mmap and friends, and compatibility with several more traditional UNIX functions. See the file INSTALL for instructions on building the library.



<BR></P>

<P><I>gnats-3.2</I>  (GNATS_3_)&#151;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.

<BR></P>

<P><I>grep-2.0</I>  (GREP_2_0)&#151;This package contains version 2.0 of grep, egrep, and fgrep. They are similar to their UNIX counterparts, but are usually faster. Instructions for compiling them are in the file README.

<BR></P>

<P><I>groff-1.09</I>  (GROFF_1_)&#151;groff is a document formatting system, which includes drivers for Postscript, TeX dvi format, and typewriter-like devices, as well as implementations of eqn, nroff, pic, refer, tbl, troff, and the man, ms, and mm 
macros. groff's mm macro package is almost compatible with the DWB mm macros and has several extensions. Written in C++, these programs can be compiled with GNU C++ Version 2.5 or later.

<BR></P>

<P><I>gzip-1.2.4</I>  (GZIP_1_2)&#151;This is a new compression program (free of known patents) which the GNU Project is using instead of the traditional compress program. Gzip can uncompress LZW-compressed files but uses a different algorithm for 
compression, which generally yields smaller compressed files. This will be the standard compression program in the GNU system.

<BR></P>

<P><I>hp2xx-3.1.4</I>  (???)&#151;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.

<BR></P>

<P><I>indent-1.9.1</I>  (INDENT_1)&#151;This is the GNU modified version of the freely distributable indent program from BSD. The file indent.texinfo contains instructions on using indent.

<BR></P>

<P><I>ispell-3.1.04</I>  (ISPELL_3)&#151;Ispell is an interactive spell checker that finds unrecognized words and suggests &quot;near misses&quot; as replacements. Both system and user-maintained dictionaries can be used. Both a stand-alone and GNU Emacs 
interface are available.

<BR></P>

<P><I>libg++-2.5.3</I>  (LIBG___2)&#151;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, multiple-precision 

Integers and Rationals, Complex numbers, arbitrary length Strings, BitSets, and BitStrings. Instructions are in the file libg++-2.5.3/libg++/README.

<BR></P>

<P><I>m4-1.1</I>  (M4_1_1)&#151;m4 is a macro processor, in the sense that it copies its input to the output, expanding macros as it goes. Macros are either built-in or user-defined, and can take any number of arguments. Besides just doing macro expansion, 

m4 has built-in functions for including named files, running UNIX commands, doing integer arithmetic, manipulating text in various ways, recursion, etc. Instructions for building m4 are in the README file.

<BR></P>

<P><I>make-3.71</I>  (MAKE_3_7)&#151;This is GNU Make. GNU Make supports many more options and features than the UNIX make. Instructions for using GNU Make are in the file make.texinfo. See the file README for installation instructions. 

<BR></P>

<P><I>mkisofs-1.01</I>  (MKISOFS_)&#151;mkisofs is a pre-mastering program to generate an ISO9660 file system. It takes a snapshot of a given directory tree, and generates a binary image which will correspond to an ISO9660 file system when written to a 
block device. mkisofs is also capable of generating the System Use Sharing Protocol records specified by the Rock Ridge Interchange Protocol. This is used to further describe the files in the ISO9660 file system to a UNIX host, and provides information 
such as longer filenames, uid/gid, Posix permissions, and block and character devices.

<BR></P>

<P><I>mtools-2.0.7</I>  (MTOOLS_2)&#151;Mtools is a public domain collection of programs to allow UNIX systems to read, write, and manipulate files on an MS-DOS file system (typically a diskette).

<BR></P>

<P><I>mule-1.1.4</I>  (MULE_1_1)&#151;Mule is a MULtilingual Enhancement to GNU Emacs 18. It can handle, not only ASCII characters (7 bits) and ISO Latin-1 (8 bits), but also Japanese, Chinese, Korean (16 bits) coded in the ISO2022 standard and its 
variants (e.g. EUC, Compound Text). For Chinese there is support for both GB and Big5. Thai (based on TIS620) and Vietnamese (based on VISCII and VSCII) are also supported.

<BR></P>

<P><I>netfax-3.2.1</I>  (NETFAX_3)&#151;This is a set of software 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.

<BR></P>

<P><I>nihcl-3.0</I>  (NIHCL_3_)&#151;This is an object oriented program support class library with a portable collection of classes similar to those in Smalltalk-80. This library used to be known as OOPS (Object-Oriented Program Support). NIHCL does not 
presently work with G++ (GNU C++).

<BR></P>

<P><I>nvi-1.11</I>  (NVI_1_11)&#151;nvi is a free implementation of the vi/ex UNIX editor. It has most of the functionality of the original vi/ex, except open mode and the lisp option, which will be added. Enhancements over vi/ex include split screens with 

multiple buffers, ability to handle 8-bit data, infinite file and line lengths, tag stacks, infinite undo and extended regular expressions. It runs under BSD, Linux, NetBSD, FreeBSD, BSDI, AIX, HP-UX, DGUX, IRIX, PSF, PTX, Solaris, SunOS, Ultrix, and 
UNIXware and should port easily to many other systems.

<BR></P>

<P><I>oleo-1.5</I>  (OLEO_1_5)&#151;Oleo is a spreadsheet program (better for you than the more expensive spreadsheet). It supports X windows and character-based terminals, and can generate embedded PostScript renditions of spreadsheets. Keybindings should 

be familiar to Emacs users and are configurable by users. There is relatively little documentation for Oleo yet. The file USING contains what there is.

<BR></P>

<P><I>p2c-1.20</I>  (P2C_1_20)&#151;This is a Pascal to C conversion program, written by Dave Gillespie.

<BR></P>

<P><I>patch-2.1</I>  (PATCH_2_)&#151;patch will take a patch file containing any of the four forms of difference listing produced by the diff program and apply those differences to an original file, producing a patched version. Instructions for building 
patch are in the README file.

<BR></P>

<P><I>perl-4.036</I>  (PERL_4_0)&#151;This is version 4.036 of Larry Wall's perl programming language. Perl is intended as a faster replacement for sed, awk, and similar languages. The file README contains instructions for compiling perl.

<BR></P>

<P><I>rc-1.4</I>  (RC_1_4)&#151;rc is a shell which 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 great for writing scripts as well.

<BR></P>

<P><I>rcs-5.6.0.1</I>  (RCS_5_6_)&#151;This is the Revision Control System, a program to manage multiple versions of a software project. This program keeps the changes from one version to another rather than multiple copies of the entire file; this saves 
disk space. Instructions for compiling RCS are in the file README.

<BR></P>

<P><I>recode-3.3</I>  (RECODE_3)&#151;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 charsets and is able to transliterate files between almost any pair. Most RFC 1345 charsets are supported.

<BR></P>

<P><I>regex-0.12</I>  (REGEX_0_)&#151;The GNU regex library routines. It is compliant with POSIX.2, except for internationalization features. It also includes a programmer's reference manual for the library (which is slightly out of date for version 0.12).



<BR></P>

<P><I>rx-0.05</I>  (RX_0_05)&#151;Rx is a pattern matcher compatible with GNU regex, but generally faster (when compiled with gcc -O or in some other way that supports the inline keyword). Version 0.05 is probably not stable.

<BR></P>

<P><I>sed-1.18</I>  (SED_1_18)&#151;sed is a text editor much like ed, but is stream-oriented. It is used copiously in shell scripts. Although GNU sed has fewer static limitations in terms of buffer size, command length, etc., it is a little slower than 
most implementations. Instructions for building GNU sed are in the file README.

<BR></P>

<P><I>sed-2.05</I>  (SED_2_05)&#151;This is a newer version of GNU sed, with many bug fixes. It also uses a beta test version of the rx library, instead of the older and slower regex library. (Because that library is still in beta testing, sed Version 1 is 

also included on this CD-ROM.) Instructions for building GNU sed are in the file README.

<BR></P>

<P><I>sh-utils-1.10</I>  (SH_UTILS)&#151;These are the GNU shell utilities, comprising small commands that are frequently run on the command line or in shell scripts. Instructions for compiling these utilities are in the file README. The sh-utils package 
contains the following programs: basename, date, dirname, echo, env, expr, false, groups, hostname, id, logname, nice, nohup, pathchk, printenv, printf, pwd, sleep, stty, su, tee, test, true, tty, uname, users, who, whoami, yes.

<BR></P>

<P><I>smalltalk-1.1.1</I>  (SMALLTAL)&#151;This is the GNU implementation of Smalltalk, an object-oriented programming language. Instructions for compiling it are in the file README.

<BR></P>

<P><I>superopt-2.3</I>  (SUPEROPT)&#151;The superoptimizer is a function sequence generator that uses an exhaustive generate-and-test approach to find the shortest instruction sequence for a given function.

<BR></P>

<P><I>tar-1.11.2</I>  (TAR_1_11)&#151;Tar is a program used for archiving many files in a single file, which makes them easier to transport. GNU tar includes multivolume support, the ability to archive sparse files, automatic archive 
compression/decompression, remote archives, and special features to 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. Instructions for compiling GNU tar may be found in the file README.

<BR></P>

<P><I>termcap-1.2</I>  (TERMCAP_)&#151;This is a stand-alone release of the GNU Termcap library, which has been part of the GNU Emacs distribution for years but is now available separately to make it easier to install as libtermcap.a. The GNU Termcap 
library does not place an arbitrary limit on the size of termcap entries, unlike most other termcap libraries. Instructions for building the termcap library are in the README file.

<BR></P>

<P><I>TeX-3.1415</I>  (TEX_3_14)&#151;This is version 3.1415 of the C TeX translation from the original WEB version. Instructions for building TeX and references for further reading are in the file TeX-3.1415/web2c-6.1/README.

<BR></P>

<P><I>texinfo-3.1</I>  (TEXINFO_)&#151;This package contains a set of utilities related to Texinfo, which is used to generate printed manuals and online hypertext-style manuals (called info). Programs and interfaces for writing, reading, and formatting 
texinfo files are available both as stand-alone programs and as GNU Emacs interfaces. See the file README for directions on how to use the various parts of this package.

<BR></P>

<P><I>textutils-1.9</I>  (TEXTUTIL)&#151;These are the GNU text utilities, commands that are used to operate on textual data. Instructions for compiling these utilities are in the file README. The textutils package contains the following programs: cat, 
cksum, comm, csplit, cut, expand, fold, head, join, nl, od, paste, pr, sort, split, sum, tac, tail, tr, unexpand, uniq, wc.

<BR></P>

<P><I>tput-1.0</I>  (TPUT_1_0)&#151;tput provides a portable way of allowing shell scripts to use special terminal capabilities. Although its interface is similar to that of terminfo-based tput programs, this one uses termcap. Instructions for compiling 
tput are in the README file.

<BR></P>

<P><I>trn-3.5</I>  (TRN_3_5)&#151;Trn is Threaded RN, a newsreader that uses an article's references to order the discussions in a natural, reply-ordered sequence called threads.  Having the replies associated with their parent articles not only makes 
following the discussion easier, but also makes it easy to backtrack and read a specific discussion from the beginning. By Wayne Davidson, based on rn by Larry Wall and Stan Barber.

<BR></P>

<P><I>uucp-1.05</I>  (UUCP_1_0)&#151;This version of UUCP was written by Ian Lance Taylor. It will be 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 as 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. Other important notes about this version of UUCP, and instructions for building it, are in the 
file README.

<BR></P>

<P><I>uuencode-1.0</I>  (UUENCODE)&#151;Uuencode and uudecode are used to transmit binary files over transmission mediums that do not support anything other than simple ASCII data.

<BR></P>

<P><I>wdiff-0.04</I>  (WDIFF_0_)&#151;wdiff compares two files, finding which words have been deleted or added to the first for getting the second. We hope eventually to integrate wdiff, as well as some ideas from a similar program called spiff, into some 

future release of GNU diff.

<BR></P>

<P><I>X11R6</I>  (X11R6)&#151;This is the X Window System. The complete &quot;core&quot; distribution is included, plus a preliminary release of the &quot;contributed&quot; distribution. The following patches from the X Consortium have already been applied 

to the core distribution: fix-01 Released 17 May 1994.

<BR></P>

<P><I>xvnews</I> (XVNEWS)&#151;An Openlook newsreader that uses the XView 3 toolkit. It has been tested using Sun OpenWindows Version 2 and Version 3 xnews servers along with olvwm, olwm, and twm. By J.J. deGraaff.

<BR></P>

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