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From: lambert@spectrum.cs.unsw.oz.au (Tim Lambert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: emacs 18.55 on Apollo SR10.2.p
Message-ID: <LAMBERT.90Aug17184152@nankeen.spectrum.cs.unsw.oz.au>
Date: 17 Aug 90 08:41:52 GMT
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In-reply-to: schmid@asterix.luftfahrt.uni-stuttgart.de's message of 16 Aug 90 05:20:24 GMT

>>>>> On 16 Aug 90 05:20:24 GMT, schmid@asterix.luftfahrt.uni-stuttgart.de (Georg Schmid) said:

> Yesterday I read about a newer Version of Zubkoffs extensions for emacs 
> 18.55 (supporting X in a better way) and the first thing I did was to get 
> it (from labrea.stanford.edu). I did the following:
>    1. untar emacs-18.55

There would appear to be a bug in tar: existing files are not truncated.
So you need:
     1a. rm `tar tf apollo-emacs.tar`

>    2. untar apollo-emacs.tar in the dist-18.55 directory
>    3. build-apollo-emacs

> Of course I ran into problems when trying to compile it:

I think this should fix things.

Tim