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authorRichard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>2003-06-03 11:03:20 +0000
committerRichard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>2003-06-03 11:03:20 +0000
commit9f425ac249d78913afbcef83eb6dfc577eede6bd (patch)
treee9d438c59546ad5d921d4fb4eea0ff126d6aa396 /etc/DISTRIB
parent7c3d5ad90378fec47f584ba918a51febd0860e9a (diff)
downloademacs-9f425ac249d78913afbcef83eb6dfc577eede6bd.tar.gz
Delete mention of etc/ORDERS file. Say VMS and Apollo systems were
supported only in past.
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diff --git a/etc/DISTRIB b/etc/DISTRIB
index 82be2f1f892..f1e8deb6ce1 100644
--- a/etc/DISTRIB
+++ b/etc/DISTRIB
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
-*- text -*-
For an order form for all Emacs and FSF distributions deliverable from
-the USA, see the file `ORDERS' in this directory (etc/ in the GNU
-Emacs distribution or http://www.gnu.org/order/order.html).
+the USA, see http://www.gnu.org/order/order.html.
GNU Emacs availability information, October 2000
Copyright (C) 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1998, 2000
@@ -34,8 +33,7 @@ If you do not know anyone to get a copy of GNU Emacs from, you can
order a cd-rom from the Free Software Foundation. We distribute
several Emacs versions. We also distribute nicely typeset copies of
the Emacs user manual, Emacs Lisp Reference Manual, the Emacs
-reference card, etc. See file `ORDERS', or visit
-http://www.gnu.org/order/order.html.
+reference card, etc. See http://www.gnu.org/order/order.html.
If you have Internet access, you can copy the latest Emacs
distribution from hosts, such as ftp.gnu.org. There are several ways
@@ -43,14 +41,12 @@ to do this; see http://www.gnu.org/software/software.html for more
information.
Emacs has been run on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and on many
-Unix systems, on a variety of types of cpu. It also works on VMS and
-on Apollo computers, though with some deficiencies that reflect
-problems in these operating systems. See the file `MACHINES' in this
-directory (see above) for a full list of machines that GNU Emacs has
-been tested on, with machine-specific installation notes and warnings.
-There is also an MS-DOS version that works on MS-DOS and all platforms
-that have some kind of ``DOS box'', and also an MS-Windows and a Mac
-version.
+Unix systems, on a variety of types of cpu, as well as on MSDOS,
+Windows and MacOS. It also formerly worked on VMS and on Apollo
+computers, though with some deficiencies that reflect problems in
+these operating systems. See the file `MACHINES' in this directory
+(see above) for a full list of machines that GNU Emacs has been tested
+on, with machine-specific installation notes and warnings.
Note that there is significant variation between Unix systems
supposedly running the same version of Unix; it is possible that what