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[xemacs-hg @ 2003-04-14 03:40:26 by youngs] 2003-04-14 Steve Youngs <youngs@xemacs.org> * package-admin.el (package-admin-find-top-directory): Use 'directory-sep-char'. (package-admin-get-install-dir): Ditto. This is so PUI won't break on platforms that don't use '/' as the directory separator. * package-get.el (package-get-pgp-available-p): New. (package-get-require-signed-base-updates): Use it. (package-get-update-base-from-buffer): Move the code that finds the gpg stuff into `package-get-pgp-available-p'. Now if you have Mailcrypt and a PGP binary installed and set up on your system, PUI will automatically default to doing PGP verification, otherwise it'll default to off. (package-get-require-base): Use the DATUM arg to `error'. (package-get-locate-index-file): Ditto. (package-get-update-base): Ditto. (package-get-update-base-entries): Ditto. (package-get-all): Ditto. (package-get-dependencies): Ditto. (package-get-info): Ditto. (package-get): Ditto. * package-info.el (batch-update-package-info): Use the DATUM arg to `error'. * package-net.el (package-net-batch-generate-bin-ini): Use the DATUM arg to `error'. * package-ui.el (pui-toggle-package-key): Use the DATUM arg to `error'. (pui-toggle-package-delete-key): Ditto. (pui-install-selected-packages): Ditto. (pui-add-required-packages): Ditto. (pui-display-info): Ditto. (list-packages-mode): Ditto. * packages.el (package-require): Use the DATUM arg to `error'.
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More Neat Stuff for your Emacs			-*-Outline-*-

This file describes GNU Emacs programs and resources that are maintained
by other people.  Some of these may become part of the Emacs distribution
in the future.

* The LCD archive

There is a large collection of Emacs Lisp code available for FTP at
archive.cis.ohio-state.edu; it is actively maintained by Dave Brennan
<brennan@hal.com> and Dave Sill <de5@ornl.gov>.

To get started using this archive, do:

	ftp archive.cis.ohio-state.edu

Once you're in FTP, do

	cd pub/gnu/emacs/elisp-archive
	bin
	get lispdir.el.Z
	get LCD-datafile.Z

and exit.  Then do:

	compress -d *.Z

The lispdir.el package will help you search for useful packages in the
LCD-datafile, which is a list of the archive constants.  It will even
fetch them for you on command.

* Eric Ludlam's etalk system

Eric Ludlam has written a C program and Emacs Lisp code to do Internet talk
through an Emacs window.  The package also includes Emacs Lisp code which
assists you in using talk to play a number of different interactive games.

This system seems to be quite nicely put together and is well documented
with a texinfo file that you can integrate into Emacs's own on-line help.
It's too large and specialized to include in the Emacs distribution, though.

Sources of this system are available for FTP at

	nic.umass.edu		128.119.166.14

Look under pub/contrib.  As of March 23 1993, there are two relevant files:

	pub/contrib/etalk0.6B.tar.Z	--- sources of the talk system
	pub/contrib/egames0.6B.tar.Z	--- more game-support files

We don't know whether this can use the additional features in GNU talk.