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If you do not have net access, our subscription service enables you to stay
current with the latest FSF developments.  For a one-time cost equivalent
to three tapes or CD-ROMs, we will mail you four new versions of the tape
of your choice or the Source Code CD-ROM.  The tapes are sent each quarter,
the Source Code CD-ROMs are sent as they are issued.  (The Source Code
CD-ROM is currently issued twice a year, but we may issue it more
frequently in the future.)
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Regularly, we will send you a new version of an
Emacs, Languages, Utilities, or MIT X Window System Required tape or the
Source CD-ROM.  The BSD Net-2, MIT Scheme, and MIT X Window System Optional
tapes are not changed often enough to warrant quarterly updates.  The
Compiler Tools Binaries CD-ROM is so new we do not yet know if we will be
offering subscriptions to it.
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Since Emacs 19 is now on the Emacs Tape and the Source CD-ROM, a
subscription to either will be a convenient way to keep current with Emacs
19 updates as it moves through beta-test.
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A subscription is also an easy way to keep up with the regular bug fixes to
the MIT X Window System.  We update the X11 Required tape, as fixes and
patches for the X Window System are issued throughout the year.  Each new
edition of the Source CD-ROM also has updated sources for the X Window
System.
See sections "Tape Subscriptions" and "CD-ROM Subscriptions" on the
"Free Software Foundation Order Form".
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