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From: ken@uc.msc.umn.edu (Ken Chin-Purcell)
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Subject: Re: gnuemacs and DecStation
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Date: 21 Nov 89 19:53:43 GMT
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In article <21267@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>, 
   bullock@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Tom Bullock) writes:
>      I have been trying to use gnuemacs as distributed with the
> DECstation 3100 Ultrix and can't get the interface with the decwindows
> to work correctly. 

The emacs menus use an obsolete X library.  The menu feature is
more trouble than it is worth.

The gentle programmer does not define HAVE_X_MENUS.  The rest
of the X support works fine.

	- Ken 'waiting for revision 19' Chin-Purcell