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From: drk@athena.mit.edu (David R Kohr)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Installing MicroEmacs 3.10e on Sun 3's and 4's running 4.0.3
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Date: 6 Jul 90 00:55:29 GMT
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I'm having trouble installing MicroEmacs 3.10e (the "interim" release) 
on Sun 3 and Sun 4 systems running Sun/OS 4.0.3.  In particular,
if in the "estruct.h" file I define the system type to be SUN (set SUN to
be 1), it won't even compile.  Then if I use BSD or V7, I can compile OK,
but there seems to be a problem in the terminal-handling code: prompts
cease to appear below the mode line (like when you do "^X^F", or "find-file",
to open a new input file), but user input does appear.  I tried using
both the original unix.c and newunix.c files when compiling, but had
this problem each time.

If someone could tell me how to properly  set up "estruct.h" for such
a system, and whether or not I should use "newunix.c" rather than "unix.c",
I would be most appreciative.  I'm also interested to hear just how well
UE now handles function and cursor movement keys using termcap--there
were lots of patches posted to bring it up to v. 3.10e, but I don't
know which ones really are reflected in that release, and how to actually
bind commands to function keys nowadays.

Finally, has anyone put together a version of UE that uses curses rather
than termcap for screen and keyboard handling?  It seems to me that that
might help fix up a lot of the problems UE has when running under Unix.

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