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From: gors@well.UUCP (Gordon Stewart)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: GNU Emacs under MS/DOS
Message-ID: <12669@well.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jul 89 15:57:39 GMT
References: <11253@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Reply-To: gors@well.UUCP (Gordon Stewart)
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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?
  >
  >Tim
  
 I Have the Phar Lap Assembler and DOS XTENDER, and the Micro Way NDP C
compiler.  I'd be willing to give it a shot, having been relatively
successful at porting other "portable" code.

The one caveat is that if the code uses ANY FLOATING POINT WHATSOEVER
(which is unlikely), it will only work on a '386 with an FPU (80*87 or
Weitek).  

But, hey -- let's shove it and see if it breaks!
 
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