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From: chris@ASYLUM.GSFC.NASA.GOV (Chris Shenton)
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Subject: GNU Emacs on VMS
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Date: 10 Aug 89 16:39:47 GMT
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I'm running GNU Emacs 18.54 on Apollo/Unix and a MicroVAX/VMS. The Apollo
version is quite happy.  I can't tell if the VMS version is supposed to be able
to do all the UNIX stuff [yet?], especially subprocesses.

The file emacs/VMSNOTES indicates that features which depend on subprocesses do
not work (dired, time/load, spell-correction, et al).  The file
emacs/lisp/vmsproc.el by Mukesh Prasad ((C) 1986) will run asynchronous a VMS
DCL subprocesses under Emacs via the `subprocess-command'; this is nice but has
an odd behaviour if you're used to the Unix-Emacs facilities.

Am I correct in thinking that this is the only VMS subproccessing facility
available at the moment? Does anyone have a VMS Dired? Is there a mailing list
somewhere for VMS (l)users?

Thanks for your support.
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