Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!digi!woodwrk!dick From: dick@woodwrk.UUCP (Richard H. Wood, Garland, Texas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: An issue for the entire Amiga Community. Message-ID: <3520.AA3520@woodwrk.UUCP> Date: 27 May 90 13:51:23 GMT Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga Lines: 83 In an article, Chuch McMannis writes: >In article (Mike Meyer) writes: >[stuff deleted] >>Um - what constitutes a "commercial" grade version of emacs? In >>specific, why doesn't the MEMACS shipped with 1.3 qualify? Likewise, >>does GNU qualify? I'm pretty sure it's running on Amiga hardware >>already. > >Memacs would qualify, but ... GNU Emacs is _not_ >available on the Amiga for some reason, at least no one has been >willing to stand up and say "I've got it, here are the sources." >This is really curious considering its apparent value to the >computing community. > [other stuff deleted] > >-- >--Chuck McManis Sun Microsystems >uucp: {anywhere}!sun!cmcmanis BIX: Internet: cmcmanis@Eng.Sun.COM >These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you. >"I tell you this parrot is bleeding deceased!" But, Chuck, there IS work going on with regards to an Amiga port of GNUEmacs. Scott Fritchie posted the following article in c.s.a.tech earlier this month: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: fritchie@sachiko.acc.stolaf.edu (Scott Fritchie; ACC @ St. Olaf College) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: GNU stuff Message-ID: Date: 5 May 90 05:21:36 GMT References: <1990May2.041747.4902@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <100@nic.acc.stolaf.edu> Sender: news@nic.acc.stolaf.edu Organization: /home/sachiko/fritchie/.organization Lines: 36 In-reply-to: hopp@stolaf..stolaf.edu's message of 4 May 90 15:20:22 GMT In article <100@nic.acc.stolaf.edu> hopp@stolaf..stolaf.edu (Eric D. Hopp) writes: Scott Fritchie and Mark Henning (fritchie@stolaf.edu & henning@stolaf.edu) are working on a port of GNU Emacs. I've been swamped, or I would have actually seen what they have running so far, and could tell you something about it. -eric hopp hopp@stolaf.edu Well, things are mostly done. I'm thinking this weekend we'll actually try to link the entire thing, which will take a *long* time. We've been thinking of moving everything down to our friendly Amiga store to compile on an A3000 (evil grin...). There's little hope that it will work after we find all the functions we forgot to include or not include, but theoretically it ought to. Yeah, right..... Anyway, this project started in late January. Both Mark and I are graudating seniors, so we've been busy making sure we graduate and bowl at least once per week. An optimistic release date, probably with bugs, will be in two weeks (Finals? Who needs to study for finals?). -Scott -- Scott Fritchie, Systems Programmer and Postmaster St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN 55057 USA Domain: fritchie@acc.stolaf.edu UUCP: ..!umn-cs!stolaf!fritchie "Yeah, boss, I'll be in late today. UNIX refuses to boot on my Ford." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- d. ___________ _______ Dick Wood// / \ / \ |Become an | {texbell|texsun}!digi!woodwrk!dick| \\ // / \ / \| Organ |{egsner|texbell}!lerami!woodwrk!dick| Amiga\X/oodwork Bench | Donar| dwood@digi.lonestar.org|