Dear Readers, this is the second release of the TOP package. It has become bigger than we thought. It was a tough work to compile all the stuff, and we apologize for the long delay. We have sent more than 100 copies of the first release all over the world, we are impressed by the number of requests. But be are disappointed because we got nearly no responses. We hoped that a lot of (esp. english speaking) people would help us with the documentation. This didn't happen, so the documentation coming with this package isn't better than the one of the first release. Sorry for that! This probably will be the last big package from TOP. The reason is that we don't have all the time needed to develope, compile, copy and maintain all the stuff. We will distribute only sub-packages, e.g. UUCP/MAIL/NOTES, SYSTEM-UTILITIES, GAMES, GNU and so on in the future. We hope that somebody in the USA, Canada, Australia and Europe is found who wants to handle the distribution for us. Volunteers should contact us (address and numbers see below)! We still can't support you on the phone, but now you may send us a fax. The number is listed below. In this release we have included a lot of sources. It may be that you will have some problems when you try to compile them. The reason for that is usually a different system installation than ours. But there should be no principal problems (editing the makefiles is likely to be necessary). The documentation for many programs here is included in the source packages. See README file in USR/SRC how to unpack. For some programs no documentation is available. These programs are small utilities explaining themselves when invoking them with '-?'. TOP Muenchen c/o reccoware systems Lochhauser Strasse 35a D-8039 Puchheim West Germany Tel.: ++49 89 80 77 02 Fax: ++49 89 80 29 67 Email: top@recco.chi.sub.org Have fun! Wolfgang Ocker (Email: weo@recco.chi.sub.org) Ulli Dessauer (Email: ud@nitmar.chi.sub.org Frank Kaefer (Email: fkk@stasys.doit.sub.org) Reimer Mellin (Email: ram@ramsys.chi.sub.org)