@setfilename tasks.info
@settitle GNU Task List
@c UPDATE THIS DATE WHENEVER YOU MAKE CHANGES!
-@set lastupdate 23 June 1997
+@set lastupdate 04 July 1997
@c %**end of header
@setchapternewpage off
@chapter About the GNU Task List
If you did not obtain this file directly from the GNU project and
-recently, please check for a newer version. You can ftp it the task
-list from any GNU FTP host in directory @file{/pub/gnu/tasks}. The task
+recently, please check for a newer version. You can ftp the task
+list from any GNU FTP host in directory @file{/pub/gnu/tasks/}. The task
list is available there in several different formats: @file{tasks.text},
-@file{tasks.texi}, @file{tasks.info}, and @file{tasks.dvi}.
-
+@file{tasks.texi}, @file{tasks.info}, and @file{tasks.dvi}. The GNU
+HURD task list is also there in file @file{tasks.hurd}.
+@c to fix an overfill, join the paragraphs -len
The task list is also available on the GNU World Wide Web server:
@url{http://www.gnu.ai.mit.edu/prep/tasks_toc.html}.
@item
If you are very good at C programming and interested in kernels, you can
-help develop the GNU HURD. Please look at
-@url{http://www.gnu.ai.mit.edu:/software/hurd/hurd.html}. then contact
-@email{gnu@@prep.ai.mit.edu} and ask for the latest HURD task list.
+help develop the GNU HURD, the kernel for the GNU system. Please have a
+look at @url{http://www.gnu.ai.mit.edu/software/hurd/hurd.html}, and
+then get a copy of the latest HURD task list from:
+
+@itemize @bullet
+
+@item
+@url{http://www.gnu.ai.mit.edu/prep/tasks.hurd.html}, via the World Wide
+Web.
+
+@item
+@url{ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/tasks/tasks.hurd}, via anonymous FTP.
+
+@item
+@email{gnu@@prep.ai.mit.edu} via e-mail.
+
+@end itemize
@item
-If you are a Scheme fan, please help develop Guile. Please look
-at @url{http://www.gnu.ai.mit.edu:/software/guile/guile.html} and then
-contact @email{guile@@gnu.ai.mit.edu}.
+If you are a Scheme fan, you can help develop Guile. Please have a look
+at the URL @url{http://www.gnu.ai.mit.edu:/software/guile/guile.html}
+and then contact @email{guile@@gnu.ai.mit.edu}.
@item
Help develop the GNU web browser, E-scape.
(I don't quite agree with a few of the details they propose.)
@item
-A program to convert Microsoft Word documents to TeX, LaTeX, Texinfo,
-text/enriched or some other format that free software can edit.
+A program to convert Microsoft Word documents to text/enriched, TeX,
+LaTeX, Texinfo, or some other format that free software can edit.
@item
A free replacement for the semi-free Qt library.