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 1.30 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.

	Note: A somewhat later VMS binary of Gnu C is available in
[.RCAF88.GCCVMS...] (vers. 1.24) than in this tree (vers. 1.21). Neither
is completely up to date due to the frequency of changes to Gnu C.
You should use the bootstrap binaries to compile GCC's latest sources
and then use those for your actual work.