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What informational files are available for Emacs?
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   This isn't a frequently asked question, but it should be!  A variety
of informational files about Emacs and relevant aspects of the GNU
project are available for you to read.

   The following files are available in the `etc' directory of the
Emacs distribution (see Note: File-name conventions, if you're not
sure where that is).

`COPYING'
     Emacs General Public License

`DISTRIB'
     Emacs Availability Information, including the popular "Free
     Software Foundation Order Form"

`FTP'
     How to get GNU Software by Internet FTP or by UUCP

`GNU'
     The GNU Manifesto

`INTERVIEW'
     Richard Stallman discusses his public-domain UNIX-compatible
     software system with BYTE editors

`LPF'
     Why you should join the League for Programming Freedom

`MACHINES'
     Status of Emacs on Various Machines and Systems

`MAILINGLISTS'
     GNU Project Electronic Mailing Lists

`NEWS'
     Emacs news, a history of recent user-visible changes

`SERVICE'
     GNU Service Directory

`SUN-SUPPORT'
     including "Using Emacstool with GNU Emacs"

   Latest versions of the above files also available at

   `ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/GNUinfo/'

   More GNU information, including back issues of the `GNU's Bulletin',
are at

   `http://www.gnu.org/bulletins/bulletins.html' and

   `http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~trent/gnu/gnu.html'