CMU Common Lisp is a public domain implementation of Common Lisp.  Both sources
and executables are freely available via anonymous FTP; this software is 
"as is", and has no warranty of any kind.  CMU and the authors assume no
responsibility for the consequences of any use of this software.

This is a general beta release, meaning that anyone can FTP it, but we won't be
very sympathetic about catastrophes resulting from your dependence on CMU CL.
After the bug reports die down, we will announce a full release, and will then
try to be sympathetic toward desperate users.

See "man cmucl" (man/man1/cmucl.1) for other general information.

Distribution:

CMU Common Lisp is only available via anonymous FTP.  We don't have the
manpower to make tapes.  All of our files are in the AFS file system.  Here are
some suggested gateway machines:
    lisp-rt1.slisp.cs.cmu.edu (128.2.217.9)
    lisp-rt2.slisp.cs.cmu.edu (128.2.217.10)

Log in with the user "anonymous" and "username@host" as password (i.e. your
EMAIL address.)  Due to the way anonymous FTP access control is done, it is
important to "cd" to the source directory with a single command, and then do a
"get" operation.  If you have any trouble with FTP access, please send mail to
slisp@cs.cmu.edu.

The binary release area is /afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/clisp/release.  This
directory holds compressed tar files with names of the form:
    <version>-<machine>_<os>.tar.Z

FTP compressed tar archives in binary mode.  To extract, "cd" to the
directory that is to be the root of the tree, then type:
    uncompress <file.tar.Z | tar xf - .

The latest SunOS Sparc release is:
    15a-sun4c_41.tar.Z
This tar file is 10 megabytes, and the resulting tree is 23 megabytes.

The release area also contains source distributions and other binary
distributions.  A listing of the current contents of the release are is in
release/FILES.  Major release announcements will be made to comp.lang.lisp
until there is enough volume to warrant a comp.lang.lisp.cmu.

Source availability:

Lisp and documentation sources are available via anonymous FTP ftp to any CMU
CS machine.  All CMU written code is public domain, but CMU CL also makes use
of several imported packages: PCL, CLX and XP.  Although these packages are
copyrighted, they may be freely distributed without any licensing agreement or
fee.

    Robert A. MacLachlan (ram@cs.cmu.edu)