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.
	Also included are VMS ports of GAWK, BISON, and GNU Grep.
	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 1.34 here is quite recent. The diffs
to go to 1.35 GCC are present, but GCC 1.35 does not compile itself
under VMS (yet) so is not included. GCC 1.34 for VMS is here.
	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.
	Various messages from the GNU Mailing lists can be found in the
ZOO archive CHANGES_CORRECTIONS.ZOO.  Use the ZOO executable found in
[VAXLT_89A.TOOLS] to read the ZOO file.

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