
 This is Epoch. The folowing is a quote from the FAQ describing what
it is:

--------- Quote from the Epoch FAQ ---------

A-1: What is Epoch?
  
  Epoch is GNU Emacs on steroids: an adaptation of GNU Emacs with lots
  of additional support for features made possible by the X11 windowing
  system.  These features include multiple editing windows, arbitrary
  colors and fonts (fixed-width and proportional), selectable zones per
  buffer with arbitrary display styles (font, color, underline, stipple,
  pixmap), an optional separate minibuffer window, improved keyboard and
  mouse handling, full 8-bit character set support, and more.
  
  Epoch, like GNU Emacs, is very customizable; much of this FAQ
  describes ways to customize Epoch for specific purposes.
 
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 To install Epoch do the following. Assuming that 
epoch4.1L1.tar.Z is in the directory /foo, do: 

 1) cd / 
 2) zcat /foo/epoch4.1L1.tar.Z | tar xvvf -
 3) Insert the file /dot_emacs somewhere in your .emacs file -- optional
 4) If your emacs lisp directory is something other than
	/usr/emacs/lisp, make a symbolic link from it to /usr/emacs/lisp
 5) edit the file /usr/epoch/epoch-lisp/epoch-specific.el and put
	whatever lisp code you want Epoch to execute at start-up -- optional
 6) Read the file /usr/epoch/etc/EPOCH-FAQ
 7) You are done! Enjoy.
 
 Note1: This an alpha release of epoch4.1 for linux (epoch4.1L1).
 Note2: This program is dynamically linked with the shared libraries
of gcc2.2.2 you must have those or the program will not run.

 /M. Saggaf
  alsaggaf@athena.mit.edu