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# MS-DOS Distribution

FSF distributes, on 3.5 inch 1.44MB diskettes, some of the GNU software that has been ported to MS-DOS. The disks have both sources and executables.

### Contents of the Demacs diskettes

Demacs is a version of GNU Emacs 18.55 ported to MS-DOS, with some changes from Emacs 18.57. Two versions are actually included--one which handles 8-bit character sets, and one, based on Nemacs, which handles 16-bit character sets, including Kanji. FSF distributes it on five diskettes.

Demacs runs on Intel 80386 and 80486--based machines running MS-DOS. It is compatible with XMS memory managers and VCPI, but not with Microsoft Windows extended mode or other DPMI managers.

### Contents of the DJGPP diskettes

DJGPP is a complete port of GCC, libraries, development utilities, and a symbolic debugger, for Intel 80386 and 80486--based machines running MS-DOS. FSF distributes it on four diskettes.

DJGPP requires at least 5MB of hard disk space to install, and 512K of RAM to use. It is compatible with XMS memory managers and VCPI, but not with Microsoft Windows extended mode or other DPMI managers. It cannot emulate multitasking (e.g. the Unix `fork` system call) or signals.

### Contents of the Selected Utilities diskettes

The GNUish MS-DOS Project releases GNU software ported to PC compatibles. In general, this software will run on 8086 and 80286--based machines; a 80386 not required. Some of these utilities are necessarily missing features. FSF distributes it on a set of diskettes.

We are distributing these utilities, both source and executables: RCS, `flex`, GAWK, `cpio`, `diff`, MicroEmacs, `find`, some file utilities, `gdbm`, `grep`, `libc`, `ptx`, `indent`, `less`, `m4`, `make`, `sed`, `shar`, `sort`, and Texinfo.

### Contents of the Windows diskette

We are distributing versions of GNU Chess and `gnuplot` ported to Microsoft Windows, on a single diskette, containing both source and executables.

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