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.