Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!van-bc!ubc-cs!alberta!access!edm!geoff From: geoff@edm.uucp (Geoff Coleman) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: GNU emacs RS6000 Message-ID: <1990Aug20.053814.2978@edm.uucp> Date: 20 Aug 90 05:38:14 GMT References: <1990Aug18.032057.22131@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> Organization: Unexsys Systems inc. Lines: 19 From article <1990Aug18.032057.22131@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>, by grund@pyrite.som.cwru.edu (Victor Grund): > In article , nelson@sun (Russ Nelson) writes: >> I have just recently received an IBM RS6000 and am feeling a bit lost >> without emacs. >> > > IBM's reason for dropping Gnu EMACS *was* economic, through threat of > legal action. > Yes but what about those of us that received it with the 9005 load of the OS. What if anything did IBM change in there version other than s- and m- files. I do know that the 9005 version compiles under the golden code just fine. Is it all right for us to have this code? Is it all right for us to redistribute this code? Geoff Coleman Unexsys Systems