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# MS-DOS Distribution

The FSF distributes, on 3.5 inch 1.44MB diskettes, some of the GNU software 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 an early version of MULE which handles 16-bit character sets including Kanji. We distribute them 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 yet with Microsoft Windows extended mode or other DPMI managers.

### Contents of the DJGPP diskettes

We distribute DJGPP on 22 diskettes. DJGPP requires at least 5MB of hard disk space to install, and 512K of RAM to use. See `GNU Software Available Now" for more information on DJGPP.

### 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; an 80386 is not required. Some of these utilities are necessarily missing features. Included are: `cpio`, `diff`, some file utilities, `find`, `flex`, `gdbm`, `grep`, `indent`, `less`, `m4`, `make`, MAWK, MicroEmacs, `ptx`, RCS, `sed`, `shar`, `sort`, & Texinfo.

### Contents of the Windows diskette

We are distributing versions of GNU Chess and `gnuplot` ported to Microsoft Windows on a single diskette.

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