The CD contains a collection of executables and source code for popular GNU programs that run on a Microsoft Windows machine. The accompanying book contains a detailed installation guide.This second edition is updated for Windows ME and NT, as well as being backwards-compatible for Windows 2000, 98, 95 and 3.X. It can also be used on MS-DOS Versions 4 and up. Note, this version was not specifically configured for Windows XP.Programs include: the DOS and Windows versions of our popular GNU C and C++ Compiler, DJGPP and Cygwin; a full-sized Emacs, our popular editor; the Perl programming language; the multi-lingual GNU Debugger, GDB; GNU Make, our popular automated update compiler utility; Gzip, a file-compression program; and Bash, a versatile shell.