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GNUs Flashes

• GNU Emacs 19 is Released!

  GNU Emacs 19 has just been released for beta-testing. Unlike some other recent derivations of Emacs, GNU Emacs 19's support for character-only terminals continues to improve along with its much improved support for bitmapped displays running the X Window System. Other new features include support for European character sets and floating point numbers, as well as source-level debugging of Emacs Lisp programs. See "Project GNU Status Report" and "Contents of the Emacs Tape" for more details.

• GCC 2 is out of beta test

  As of version 2.4.1, the GNU C Compiler version 2 is out of beta test. For more information, see "Contents of the Languages Tape."

• New Manuals

  The new GNU Emacs Manual, 8th edition, (updated for Emacs 19) and the new GNU C Library Reference Manual are now being shipped.

• New Scheme Tape

  Because of its size, MIT C Scheme is now on a separate tape. See "Contents of the Scheme Tape" for more information.

• New Programs on the Languages Tape

  p2c, DejaGnu, Tile Forth, and the standalone GNU regex library have been added. Details in "Contents of the Languages Tape".

• Taylor UUCP Now a Full-Fledged Replacement for Unix UUCP

  Ian Taylor, author of Taylor UUCP, has added the final pieces for it to be a complete free replacement for Unix UUCP. It's on the Utilities Tape.

• New Programs on the Utilities Tape

  acm, dc, doschk, es, Gnats, rc, GNU Shogi, and UUCP have been added. See "Contents of the Utilities Tape" for more information.

• New programs on the Experimental Tape

  Version 2 of GAS, the GNU assembler, and Texinfo source for the GNU C Library Reference Manual have been added. See "Contents of the Experimental Tape" for more information.

• New programs on the CD-ROM

  The CD-ROM has all the new programs and changes on the tapes. See "Contents of the CD-ROM" for more information.

• Objective C Runtime System Funded

  Kresten Krab Thorup, author of the Objective C runtime system, has been hired as a part-time programmer for six months by the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Aalbord University, Denmark. His work will serve to define the most portable and extensible tools and libraries for this dynamic and popular object-oriented language.

• Dell Adopts GNU CC for Controller Software

  Dell has adopted GCC for the development of new controller software. Dell already uses GCC to build SVR4, and like Commodore quotes improved performance. Other systems based on GCC are 4.4BSD, NetBSD, 386BSD, BSDI, Linux, and many Mach ports including OSF/1's reference ports, NeXT, and DG/UX. SGI now ships GNU cpp with their C compiler.

• Free Widget Foundation Announces Widgets

  The Free Widget Foundation (FWF) is volunteer effort to create a set of powerful, flexible, freely-accessible X graphical user-interface modules (widgets). The FWF is not related to the Free Software Foundation, but shares our goal of making high-quality software freely redistributable.

  For more information, contact free-widgets-info@flute.cs.uiuc.edu, or get the README file in `/pub/FWF/README' via anonymous FTP to a.cs.uiuc.edu. The README file tells about mailing lists, locations of source code available for FTP, historical information about the FWF, and how to volunteer for the organization. Or write: The Free Widget Foundation, c/o Brian Totty, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1304 W. Springfield Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801 USA

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