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From: bmacintyre@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca (Blair MacIntyre)
Subject: Re: any luck with gnu-emacs?
In-Reply-To: pawn@wpi.wpi.edu's message of 30 Aug 90 01:48:29 GMT
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>>>>> On 30 Aug 90 01:48:29 GMT, pawn@wpi.wpi.edu (Kevin Goroway) said:

Kevin> Has anyone had any luck with the gnu-emacs on abcfd20?
Kevin> Even the gnu-lisp file doesn't unarchive correctly...
Kevin> A full blown gnu-emacs port would be a wonderful thing.

The files were probably archived with an old 0.03 lharc.  I got the
source to Unix lharc 1.0 and managed to hack it (using dbx and setting
the occasional variable to a more "appropriate" value :-) to extract the
files.  Alas, the documention, when followed, is insufficient.  I
couldn't get it running.  It complained 
	"Please set the environment variable TERM; set tset(1)."
which (according to mail from the author) is telling me to set the amiga
env:TERM variable and put the supplied termcap in s:

Did this and it didn't work.  

Don't bother downloading until this is cleared up.  If I ever get it
working, I'll post what I know or get the author to do that.

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-- Blair MacIntyre, Professional Leech on Society ( aka CS Graduate Student )
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