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From: terry@tah386.manhattan.ks.us (Terry Hull)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: GNU Emacs under MS/DOS
Message-ID: <547@tah386.manhattan.ks.us>
Date: 11 Jul 89 13:24:24 GMT
References: <11253@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Reply-To: terry@tah386.manhattan.ks.us (Terry Hull)
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In article <11253@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> tim@cit-vax.UUCP (Timothy L. Kay) writes:
>It occured to me that somebody with a DOS extender that supports
>386 mode should be able to port GNU Emacs fairly easily.  Anybody
>out there with Metaware C (or some other similar product) willing
>to do us MS-DOS on 386 users a favor?
>

I think that you will find this to be a large task.  There are LOTS of
UNIX dependancies in GNU Emacs.  Not the least of the problems would be
writing a program to dump the executable xemacs with the lisp code loaded.  
I suggest using one of the micro-Emacs variants for DOS.  

-- 
Terry Hull 
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Kansas State University
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