+ GNU Emacs availability information, 13 March 1988
+ Copyright (C) 1986, 1987, 1988 Richard M. Stallman
+
+ Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute
+ verbatim copies of this document provided that the
+ copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved.
+
+ The prices on the order form below EXPIRE in June 1989
+
+GNU Emacs is legally owned by the Free Software Foundation, but we
+regard the foundation actually as its custodian on behalf of the
+public, since all software ought to be the common property of mankind.
+
+The foundation permits everyone to have and run copies of GNU Emacs,
+at no charge, and to redistribute copies under certain conditions
+which are designed to make sure that that all modified versions of GNU
+Emacs remain as free as the versions we distribute. These conditions
+are stated in the document "GNU Emacs General Public License", a copy
+of which is required to be distributed with every copy of GNU Emacs.
+It is usually in a file named COPYING in the same directory as this
+file.
+
+If you do not know anyone to get a copy of GNU Emacs from, you can
+order a tape from the Free Software Foundation. We distribute Emacs
+version 18 on 1600bpi industry standard mag tape in tar format. We
+will also ship it on 1/4" Sun cartridge tapes in tar format and on 1600bpi
+magtape in VMS interchange format. We also distribute nicely typeset
+copies of the Emacs manual. See the order form at the end of this
+file.
+
+If you have Internet access, you can copy the latest Emacs
+distribution from host prep.ai.mit.edu. There are several ways to do
+this; see the file `FTP' in the same directory as this file for more
+information. Even better, get the latest version of the file from
+`/u2/emacs/etc/FTP' on prep.ai.mit.edu for the most current
+arrangements. It may also be possible to copy Emacs via uucp; the
+file `FTP' contains information on that too.
+
+Emacs has been run on both Berkeley Unix and System V Unix, on a
+variety of types of cpu. It also works on VMS and on Apollo
+computers, though with some deficiencies that reflect problems in
+these operating systems. See the file MACHINES in this directory for
+a full list of machines that GNU Emacs has been tested on, with
+machine-specific installation notes and warnings.
+
+Note that there is significant variation between Unix systems
+supposedly running the same version of Unix; it is possible that what
+works in GNU Emacs for me does not work on your system due to such an
+incompatibility. Since I must avoid reading Unix source code, I
+cannot even guess what such problems may exist.
+
+GNU Emacs is distributed with no warranty (see the General Public
+License for full details), and neither I nor the Free Software
+Foundation promises any kind of support or assistance to users. The
+foundation keeps a list of people who are willing to offer support and
+assistance for hire. It is usually in a file named SERVICE in the
+same directory as this file.
+
+However, I plan to continue to improve GNU Emacs and keep it reliable,
+so please send me any complaints and suggestions you have. I will
+probably fix anything that is clearly (to me) a malfunction. I may
+make an improvement if I consider it worth the effort, but you should
+not be surprised if I don't think I can spare time for it. I hope to
+keep Emacs stable now, and avoid putting much time into it, so I can
+work on other parts of the GNU system.
+
+If you are on the Internet, report bugs to
+bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu; on Usenet, use the address
+...!ucbvax!bug-gnu-emacs%prep.ai.mit.edu. Otherwise, phone the
+foundation at +1 617 876-3296, or write to the address listed below.
+
+If you are a computer manufacturer, I encourage you to ship a copy of
+GNU Emacs with every computer you deliver. The same copying
+permission terms apply to computer manufacturers as to everyone else.
+You should consider making a donation to help support the GNU project;
+if you estimate what it would cost to distribute some commercial
+product and divide it by five, that is a good amount.
+
+If you like GNU Emacs, please express your satisfaction with a
+donation: send me or the Foundation what you feel Emacs has been worth
+to you. If you are glad that I developed GNU Emacs and distribute it
+as freeware, rather than following the obstructive and antisocial
+practices typical of software developers, reward me for doing so!
+
+Your donations will help to support the development of more useful
+software to be distributed on the same basis as GNU Emacs. Eventually
+we will have a complete imitation of the Unix operating system, called
+GNU (Gnu's Not Unix), which will run Unix user programs. For more
+information on GNU, see the file GNU in this directory.
+
+
+ Richard M Stallman
+ Chief GNUisance,
+ President of the Free Software Foundation
+\f
+ Free Software Foundation Order Form
+ 17 January 1989
+
+ This form is effective January 1989--June 1989.
+
+All software and publications are distributed with permission to
+copy and redistribute.
+
+Quantity Price Item
+
+________ $150 GNU Emacs and other software, for Unix systems,
+ on 1600bpi reel-to-reel 9-track tape in tar format.
+ The tape also contains:
+ * MIT Scheme (a dialect of Lisp)
+ * T, Yale's implementation of Scheme
+ * Bison (a free, compatible replacement for yacc)
+ * Hack (a rogue-like game)
+ * GNU Chess (a chess playing program with an interface to X).
+ * GDB (the GNU source-level C debugger)
+ * The X window system (a window system for bitmap
+ displays written at MIT) (version 10r4)
+
+________ $150 GNU Beta Test tape, for Unix systems, on tape as in last item.
+ The tape includes:
+ * GCC (the GNU C Compiler)
+ * G++ (the C++ front end to GCC)
+ * Bison (a free, compatible replacement for yacc)
+ * Flex (Vern Paxson fast rewrite of lex)
+ * Gnostscript (a Postscript interpreter)
+ * Gawk (the GNU implementation of the AWK programming language)
+ * Gas (the GNU Assembler)
+ * Gnuplot (an interactive mathematical plotting program)
+ * GNU object file utilities (ar, ld, make, gprof, size, nm,
+ strip, ranlib, et al.)
+ * other GNU utilities (diff, grep, tar, et al.)
+ * the freed files from the 4.3BSD-Tahoe distribution
+
+________ $150 MIT X Window System X11R3, for Unix systems,
+ on tape as in last item.
+
+________ $175 GNU Emacs and other software, for Suns, as in the first item,
+ on DC300XLP 1/4inch cartridge tape, in QIC-24 format.
+
+________ $175 GNU Beta Test tape, for Suns, as in the second item,
+ on tape as in last item.
+
+________ $175 MIT X Window System X11R3, as in the third item,
+ on tape as in last item.
+
+________ $150 GNU Emacs source code and binaries, for VMS, on 1600
+ bpi reel-to-reel 9-track tape in VMS backup format.
+
+________ $150 GNU C compiler source code and binaries, for VMS, on
+ tape as in last item. Includes Bison and GAS.
+
+________ $15 GNU Emacs manual, ~300 pages. The manual is phototypeset,
+ offset printed, and spiral bound; it includes a reference card.
+
+Thus, a 1600 bpi tape and one Emacs manual come to $165.
+
+________ $60 Box of six GNU Emacs manuals, each with reference card.
+
+________ $1 One GNU Emacs reference card, without the manual.
+
+________ $5 Packet of ten GNU Emacs reference cards.
+
+________ $10 GDB Manual, ~70 pages, side stapled.
+
+________ $10 Texinfo Manual, ~100 pages, side stapled. Texinfo is GNU's
+ structured documentation system, included with GNU Emacs
+ This manual describes how to write Texinfo documents.
+
+________ $10 Termcap Manual, ~60 pages, side stapled. Documents the
+ termcap library and GNU's extensions to it. The GNU termcap
+ library is included with GNU Emacs.
+
+________ $10 Bison Manual, ~70 pages, side stapled.
+
+________ $10 Gawk Manual, ~100 pages, side stapled.
+
+________ $10 Make Manual, ~100 pages, side stapled.
+
+Prices and contents of tapes are subject to change without notice.
+This form is effective January 1989--June 1989.
+
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+
+________ If outside of North America and Hawaii: for shipping costs,
+ please add $60 for each box of Emacs manuals; for tapes or
+ unboxed manuals, please add $15, and then add $15 more for
+ each tape or unboxed manual.
+
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+
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