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A possibly more up-to-date list of GNU FTP sites is at http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html
Use the ftp program on your system (ask locally if you can't find it) to connect to the host you are ftping from. Unless indicated otherwise, login in as user "anonymous", with password: "your e-mail address" and set "binary" mode (to transfer all eight bits in each byte).
ALWAYS USE BINARY/IMAGE MODE TO TRANSFER THESE FILES! Text mode does not work for tar files or compressed files.
GNU software is available on ftp.gnu.org under the directory /gnu. diff files to convert between versions exist for some of these programs. Some programs have misc support files as well. Have a look on ftp.gnu.org to see which ones. In most cases, the tar or diff files are compressed with the `gzip' program; this is indicated with the .gz suffix.
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Please do NOT use a site outside your country, until you have checked all sites inside your country, and then your continent. Trans-ocean TCP/IP links are very expensive and usually very low speed.
The canonical GNU ftp site is located at ftp.gnu.org/gnu. You should probably use one of the many mirrors of that site - the mirrors will be less busy, and you can find one closer to your site.
Emacs is in the directory /gnu/emacs on ftp.gnu.org. The emacs distribution itself has a filename in the form emacs-M.N.tar.gz, where M and N stand for the version numbers; the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual is in a separate file, named elisp-manual-NN.tar.gz.
The latest distribution version of C Scheme is available via anonymous FTP from swiss-ftp.ai.mit.edu in /pub/scheme-X.X/ (where X.X is some version number).
Read the files INSTALL and README in the top level C Scheme directory.
We don't distribute TeX now, but it is free software.
TeX is a document formatter that is used, among other things, by the FSF for all its documentation. You will need it if you want to make printed manuals.
TeX is freely redistributable. You can get it by ftp, tape, or CD/ROM.
ftp.cs.umb.edu/pub/tex/unixtex.ftp. (We don't include it here because it changes relatively frequently. Sorry.)
is included on the GNU source CD-ROM. See the file ORDERS in this directory for more information.
You can anonymously ftp a VMS version of GNU emacs from:
jpo@cs.nott.ac.uk is willing to distribute those GNU sources he has available. The smaller items are available from the info-server (send to info-server@cs.nott.ac.uk); the larger items by negotiation. Due to communication costs this service is only available within the UK.
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UK sites with just anonymous FTP access are in the above list.
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Information on how to uucp some GNU programs is available via electronic mail from: uunet!hutch!barber, hqda-ai!merlin, acornrc!bob, hao!scicom!qetzal!upba!ugn!nepa!denny, ncar!noao!asuvax!hrc!dan, bigtex!james (aka james@bigtex.cactus.org), oli-stl!root, src@contrib.de (Germany), toku@dit.co.jp (Japan) and info@ftp.uu.net.
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