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% GNO Overview
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% $Id: intro.tex,v 1.5 1998/06/12 14:47:33 gdr-ftp Exp $
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% $Id: intro.tex,v 1.6 1998/09/24 06:49:58 gdr-ftp Exp $
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\documentclass{report}
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\title{GNO Overview and Installation}
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\author{Jawaid Bazyar \\ Tim Meekins \\ Devin Reade}
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\date{11 June 1998}
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\date{24 September 1998}
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\maketitle
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\bibliographystyle{plain}
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@ -70,7 +70,8 @@ trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc.
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AppleWorks GS is a trademark of Claris Corp.
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UNIX is a registered trademark of AT\&T Bell Laboratories.
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UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the USA and other
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countries.
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\bf
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Important Notice:
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\item[Kernel]
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Jawaid Bazyar,
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Jawaid Bazyar;
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Derek Taubert.
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\item[GNO Shell]
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Tim Meekins.
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Tim Meekins;
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Dave Tribby.
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\item[Documentation]
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Jawaid Bazyar,
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Albert Chin,
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Tim Meekins,
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Devin Reade,
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Jawaid Bazyar;
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Albert Chin;
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Tim Meekins;
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Devin Reade;
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Andrew Roughan.
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\item[Utilities]
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Matt Ackeret,
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Leslie Barstow,
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Soenke Behrens,
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James Brookes,
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Evan Day,
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Tilghman Lesher,
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Devin Reade,
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Ian Schmidt,
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Derek Taubert,
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Greg Thompson,
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Dave Tribby,
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Matt Ackeret;
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Leslie Barstow;
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Soenke Behrens;
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James Brookes;
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Evan Day;
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Tilghman Lesher;
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Devin Reade;
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Ian Schmidt;
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Derek Taubert;
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Greg Thompson;
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Dave Tribby;
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Philip Vandry.
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\item[Libraries]
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Jawaid Bazyar,
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Soenke Behrens,
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James Brookes,
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Douglas Gwyn,
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Tilghman Lesher,
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Devin Reade,
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Henry Spencer,
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Derek Taubert,
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Dave Tribby,
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Phillip Vandry,
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Mike Westerfield,
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Procyon, Inc.
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The Byte Works, Inc.
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Jawaid Bazyar;
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Soenke Behrens;
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James Brookes;
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Douglas Gwyn;
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Tilghman Lesher;
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Devin Reade;
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Henry Spencer;
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Derek Taubert;
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Dave Tribby;
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Phillip Vandry;
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Mike Westerfield;
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Procyon, Inc.;
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The Byte Works, Inc.;
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University of California, Berkeley.
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@ -171,8 +173,8 @@ With many thanks to:
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Bill Gulstad, Rob Knauerhase,
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and everyone on the gno-devel and GNOBETA Internet mailing lists.
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\item
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Dave Lyons, for tolerating my endless
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questions since the beginning of time, for getting me
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Dave Lyons, for tolerating Jawaid's endless
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questions since the beginning of time, for getting Jawaid
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started in IIgs programming, and for calling GNO ``cool''.
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\item
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Mike Westerfield, for your
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Special thanks to:
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\begin{itemize}
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\item
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Matt Deatherage, for egging me on to
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Matt Deatherage, for egging Jawaid on to
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complete the project; also, for your most helpful
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technical support through DEVSUPPORT --- you guys made this thing possible!
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\item
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Randy Hyde, for telling me it couldn't be done.
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Randy Hyde, for telling Jawaid it couldn't be done.
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\end{itemize}
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\chapter{Preface}
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Available to the programmer are all the calls needed to control
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processes, support Inter-Process Communication, and other tools
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needed in a multitasking environment.
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In fact, a large portion of the libraries in GNO v2.0.6 and later
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are based upon code from FreeBSD UNIX (see \hturl{http://www.freebsd.org}).
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The version of FreeBSD on which the GNO libraries are based is also
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available at \hturl{ftp://ftp.gno.org/cdrom/usr/src}.
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GNO/ME also boasts the first completely
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consistent method for accessing serial and console I/O. The IIgs
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@ -292,6 +298,12 @@ the power of a UNIX system to the Apple IIgs. Also, a number of
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programming libraries are included that make it easy to port
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programs from UNIX or MS-DOS systems to the Apple IIgs.
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%
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% Dave Tribby thinks we should add in a ``what's new in 2.0.6'' list
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\section{The GNO/ME Package}
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GNO is a large and complex system. There are many pieces to it;
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of ORCALib that should be installed if you are using ORCA/C v2.0.x
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with GNO v2.0.4.
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\em A developmental release of GNO v2.0.6 is pending. This page will
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be updated as more information becomes available. \rm
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Finally, there is an extensive collection of third-party GNO utilities
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available. A listing of these utilities may be found at
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\hturl{http://www.arrowweb.com/sbehrens/describe.htm}
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\hturl{http://www.gno.org/~gno/describe/}
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or
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\hturl{http://www.servtech.com/public/phoenix/computers/gno/index.html}.
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are subject areas set up for GNO under ``third party technical support''.
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Delphi is accessible via \hturl{http://delphi.com}. (Delphi is
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recommended for discussion of programming topics in general and
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has, for the most part, taken over from Genie as the centre of
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has, for the most part, taken over from Genie as the center of
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online Apple II communication. Some packages are available free of
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charge. Visit Delphi for more details.)
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Unlike USENET, on Delphi you should try to continue existing threads.
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The current ones for GNO are:
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\begin{itemize}
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\item Message 1045: GNO: System Installation and Configuration
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\item Message 1046: GNO: References and Users' Manuals
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\item Message 1047: GNO: Manual Pages
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\item Message 1048: GNO: The Kernel
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\item Message 1049: GNO: Shells
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\item Message 1050: GNO: Libraries and System Header Files
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\item Message 1051: GNO: Interfacing with ORCA
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\item Message 1052: GNO: Networking and Telecommunications
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\item Message 1053: GNO: General Discussion
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\end{itemize}
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\item
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Also on Delphi, there is a regularly scheduled GNO Programmers' Conference
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on Monday and Thursday evenings from 10pm to midnight EST/EDT. Devin
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is usually around those evenings, although he sometimes misses the
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conference. If you don't catch him the first time, be sure to try again
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another day.
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\end{itemize}
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As a last resort, you can contact Devin Reade (one of the GNO
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individual keystrokes, then we need it. Only in this way can we
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decide whether the bug is hardware dependent or global.
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Once you have collected this information, you should contact the
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Once you have collected this information, the preferred method of
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submitting it is to use the online GNOBugs database at
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\hturl{http://www.gno.org/~gno/bugs.html}.
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Alternately, you could contact the
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GNO developers in one of the ways mentioned in the section on
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\bf Obtaining Assistance\rm.
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If you're working on a project which
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utilizes GNO/ME in some way, we'd like to know about it. Just
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contact us by mail, phone, or whatever is most convenient for
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you, and tell us about your project. If possible, we'll
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Devin by email and tell him about your project. If possible, he'll
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coordinate your efforts with those of other programmers. If we
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really like your project and think it may be useful to others, we
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may include it on the next GNO/ME distribution!
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really like your project and think it may be useful to others, it
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may be included on the next GNO/ME distribution!
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It is, of course, good to not start work on something that is already
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being worked on or already finished. Before starting a project, you may
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first wish to check the Program Status List at
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\hturl{http://www.gno.org/~gno/status.bin.html}
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or the Library Status List at
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\hturl{http://www.gno.org/~gno/status.lib.html}.
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\section{Software Piracy}
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