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From: chuck@mitlns.mit.edu
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.vms
Subject: Re: meta key and dec windows in vms5.1 emacs
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Date: 8 Dec 89 14:09:42 GMT
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In article <7263@pt.cs.cmu.edu>, cmaeda@a.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Christopher Maeda) writes...
>I have gnu emacs 18.55 running on vms 5.1 but the meta key
>doesn't work.  Is this a termcap problem?  Does anyone have
>a termcap entry that enables the meta key (ie the compose
>character key by the space bar).
> 
>Also, to ask this question again, does anyone have emacs 
>running under dec windows.  I tried to compile it for awhile
>but it keeps barfing since vms seems to lack the fcntl facility.
CTRSCI.UTAH.EDU has patches available for 18.52 unde VMS DecWindows.
Probably they work just fine in 18.55. It also fixes the compose key
to be the Meta key.  They are available for anonymous ftp in tar format.
There is also a VMS tar available if you need it. I'm quite curious if
these changes will make it into the standard distribution, if anyone 
can comment on that.

				Chuck Parsons
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				CHUCK@MITLNS.BITNET