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Glenn Morris |
Subject: |
[Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/emacs-23 r100125: * etc/DISTRIB: Small updates. |
Date: |
Tue, 19 Oct 2010 21:00:01 -0700 |
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revno: 100125
committer: Glenn Morris <address@hidden>
branch nick: emacs-23
timestamp: Tue 2010-10-19 21:00:01 -0700
message:
* etc/DISTRIB: Small updates.
See discussion at
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2010-10/msg00495.html
modified:
etc/ChangeLog
etc/DISTRIB
=== modified file 'etc/ChangeLog'
--- a/etc/ChangeLog 2010-10-12 23:25:19 +0000
+++ b/etc/ChangeLog 2010-10-20 04:00:01 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2010-10-20 Glenn Morris <address@hidden>
+
+ * DISTRIB: Small updates.
+
2010-10-12 Juanma Barranquero <address@hidden>
* tutorials/TUTORIAL.es: Fix typos.
=== modified file 'etc/DISTRIB'
--- a/etc/DISTRIB 2010-01-13 08:35:10 +0000
+++ b/etc/DISTRIB 2010-10-20 04:00:01 +0000
@@ -1,12 +1,9 @@
-*- text -*-
-For an order form for all Emacs and FSF distributions deliverable from
-the USA, see http://www.gnu.org/order/order.html.
-
- GNU Emacs availability information, October 2000
+ GNU Emacs availability information
Copyright (C) 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1995,
- 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
- Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009,
+ 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
See the end of the file for license conditions.
@@ -29,31 +26,17 @@
(including modified versions) has the freedom to redistribute and
change it.
-If you do not know anyone to get a copy of GNU Emacs from, you can
-order a cd-rom from the Free Software Foundation. We distribute
-several Emacs versions. We also distribute nicely typeset copies of
-the Emacs user manual, Emacs Lisp Reference Manual, the Emacs
-reference card, etc. See http://www.gnu.org/order/order.html.
-
-If you have Internet access, you can copy the latest Emacs
-distribution from hosts, such as ftp.gnu.org. There are several ways
-to do this; see http://www.gnu.org/software/software.html for more
-information.
+For information on how to get GNU software, see
+http://www.gnu.org/software/software.html. Printed copies of GNU
+manuals, including the Emacs manual, are available from the FSF's
+online store at http://shop.fsf.org.
Emacs has been run on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and on many
Unix systems, on a variety of types of cpu, as well as on MSDOS,
-Windows and MacOS. It also formerly worked on VMS and on Apollo
-computers, though with some deficiencies that reflect problems in
-these operating systems. See the file `MACHINES' in this directory
-(see above) for a full list of machines that GNU Emacs has been tested
+Windows and MacOS. See the file `etc/MACHINES' in the Emacs
+distribution for a full list of machines that GNU Emacs has been tested
on, with machine-specific installation notes and warnings.
-Note that there is significant variation between Unix systems
-supposedly running the same version of Unix; it is possible that what
-works in GNU Emacs for me does not work on your system due to such an
-incompatibility. Since I must avoid reading Unix source code, I
-cannot even guess what such problems may exist.
-
GNU Emacs is distributed with no warranty (see the General Public
License for full details, in the file `COPYING' in this directory (see
above)), and neither I nor the Free Software Foundation promises any
@@ -62,14 +45,13 @@
See http://www.gnu.org/help/gethelp.html.
However, we plan to continue to improve GNU Emacs and keep it
-reliable, so please send me any complaints and suggestions you have.
-I will probably fix anything that I consider a malfunction. I may
-make improvements that are suggested, but I may choose not to.
+reliable, so please send us any complaints and suggestions you have.
+We will probably fix anything that we consider a malfunction. We may
+make improvements that are suggested, but we may choose not to.
-If you are on the Internet, report bugs to address@hidden You
-can use the Emacs command M-x report-bug RET to mail a bug report.
-Please read the Bugs section of the Emacs manual before reporting
-bugs.
+If you are on the Internet, report bugs to address@hidden
+You can use the Emacs command M-x report-bug RET to mail a bug report.
+Please read the Bugs section of the Emacs manual before reporting bugs.
General questions about the GNU Project can be asked of address@hidden
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