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Subject: Distributing GNU Emacs
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From: Richard M. Stallman < rms@mit-prep>
1.  Don't use shar!  It destroys all the .elc files.
Since sh bugs also contribute to the problem, it cannot
be solved by fixing shar (I tried).
Please make a tar file available, to save people the
work of regenerating the .elc files.

2. If announce that you have a copy of GNU Emacs for distribution,
say what version number it is.

There is no manual yet, but I hope to have adapted the PDP-10
Emacs manual within a month or two.  Please read the file DISTRIB
for answers to many other such questions.

GNU Emacs version 15 should be in its final form in a couple of days.
People might wish to wait for that rather than transfer existing versions.