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From: 880716a@aucs.uucp (Dave Astels)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Emacs For The IBM PC
Message-ID: <1990Jul10.130318.18671@aucs.uucp>
Date: 10 Jul 90 13:03:18 GMT
References: <5076@mace.cc.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: 880716a@aucs.UUCP (Dave Astels)
Organization: School of Computer Science, Acadia Univ., Nova Scotia
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In article <5076@mace.cc.purdue.edu> exl@mace.cc.purdue.edu (The Junkyard DAWG) writes:
>Hi,
>
>  I Have A Few Questions Regarding Emacs For The IBM PC.
>  
>  1) First Of All Is It Legal To Download Emacs Source Code To My PC ?

If it doesn't fall under a braindead license.  There are several PC Emacs
implementations ... for the PC!

>  2) How Do I Compile It ? The Source Code I Have Is For UNIX(tm) Machines.
>    Is There Any ftp Site Which Has Source Code For Emacs On The IBM PC ? Or 
>    Is There Any Other Kind Of ASCII Editor Available For A PC From A ftp 
>    Site ?

I believe I got uEmacs 3.10 from durer.cme.nist.gov
file: uEmacs.tar.Z

It comes with headers, etc for a variety of operating systems.

>  3) How Would I Compile The Source Code ? (I Have Turbo C V1.5)

It comes with a Makefile.



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