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From: rmf@media.uucp (Roger Fujii)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Emacs on Apollo
Message-ID: <1990Aug7.145531.15490@media.uucp>
Date: 7 Aug 90 14:55:31 GMT
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yzhao@hermes.cs.uh.edu writes:


>   I built an Emacs on my Apollo station. It works fine, except a slow
>initialization. In $EMACS/etc/APOLLO, it is mentioned that "The Apollo
>has a bizarre operating system which does not permit Emacs to be dumped
>with preloded pure Lisp code". It also mentioned that "Here is a design

So true...

>for a method of dumping and reloading the relevant necessary impure
>areas of Emacs".

>  What I don't understand is whether this will solve the problem, and
>how it can be done since I don't what to do after I looked the $EMACS/
>etc/alloc.c file.

Well, there are easier methods of doing this.  If you look on prep.ai.mit.edu,
one of the files there is an version of emacs for the apollo (18.54) that
solves this problem.  I also have patches of this to apply for 18.55. 

>  Another question,can we still order "Emacs, the Extensible,
>Customizable Self-Documenting Display Editor" and "A Cookbook for an
>Emacs" from Publication Department of AI Lab with $2.50 and $3.00 each?
>If not, where can I find a source to get them?

Get the GNU Emacs Manual from FSF.  Their address is
 Free Software Foundation
 675 Massachusetts Ave.
 Cambridge, MA 02139

The manual is/was $15.
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