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From: ut6y@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU
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Subject: Re: What are these files, and what do they do?
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Date: 9 Aug 89 02:12:10 GMT
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Reply-To: mshappe@vax1.cit.cornell.edu (Mike Shappe)
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Thus said dan@hrc.UUCP (Dan Troxel) in article <200373@hrc.UUCP> -->
>Now that osu-cis has a Telebit, I am going to add GNU stuff to
>my Arizona archive site. But, first, before I pay the phone charges,
>would a few kind souls tell me what these files are, and what they do?


You asked for it....
NOte: I simply deleted the ones I don't know from the list to save bandwidth

>GNU Bash
	BASH aka Bourne Again SHell.  FSF's replacement for the standard
	'sh'.  Includes filename completion and KSH/NeXTCSH-like history
	scrolling using EMACS or VI keymaps.  That is, you can hit "Ctrl-P"
	and have the last command you typed pop back up.  Runs most 
	SHell scripts, tho' not all.
>GNU Bison
	FSF's replacement for YACC.  Used in creating parsers.

>GNU Indent
	FSF's replacement for BSD indent.  Program takes C-code as input
	and outputs the same code indented to one of a number of
	indenting standards.

>GNU Lex	 
	aka 'FLEX'.  Replacement for standard Lex.  Used in creating parsers.

>Gnews	 
	FSF netnews program.

>Ispell
	Spell checker

>JOVE	 
	Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs.  A smaller EMACS than GNU, but
	limited.  For most everyday uses, however, an excellent program,
	particularly if you don't have the space for GNU Emacs.

>KA9Q	 
	A networking program for PCs, I believe.

>MIT C Scheme	 
	MIT's dialect of LISP

>NNTP
	NetNews Transfer Protocol.  System for sending NetNews over the
	InterNet.  Allows for remote reading over the Internet, as well --
	that is, the news doesn't have to be stored on the machine you
	read from.

>RFCs and IDEAS	 
	RFC's are InterNet standards-in-waiting.  They describe software to
	be implemented.  Note: they are NOT the programs themselves, but
	rather describe what future programs written to handle a given
	problem should do.  For example, the infamous RFC822 describes
	the system of headers that should be found on InterNet mail messages.

>Tcsh
	Just as BASH is a replacement for the Bourne shell, this is a
	replacement for older CShells.  Many newer CShells have the same
	features as TCSH (notable, NeXT CSH).

Mike Shappe
Cornell Info. Tech.