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From: arritt@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: gnu emacs
Message-ID: <26411.272e9f46@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 31 Oct 90 14:54:14 GMT
References: <9010260645.AA03374@UZI.MIT.EDU> <1990Oct29.160453.13500@uicbert.eecs.uic.edu> <1990Oct30.185918.9719@uicbert.eecs.uic.edu>
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In article <1990Oct30.185918.9719@uicbert.eecs.uic.edu>, kenyon@uicbert.eecs.uic.edu (Robert Kenyon) writes:
> kenyon@uicbert.eecs.uic.edu (Robert Kenyon) writes:
> 
>>"0000-Admin@UCBVAX.BERKELEY.EDU writes:
> 
>>>I'm still failing to compile GNU emacs on my 4D/20 running IRIX 3.3.1...

Since so many people (including me) have had so much trouble compiling
EMACS, I have a modest proposal: could some kind soul make the SGI EMACS
executables available via anonymous ftp?  If they were willing, could 
sgi.com serve as the distribution point without running afoul of 
Stallman's copyright, etc?

This would save a **LOT** of person-hours throughout the SGI user community 
and also decrease the traffic on this group.
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Raymond W. Arritt                     | 
Assistant Professor                   |
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy        |  "everyone knew that as time went
Univ. of Kansas                       |   by they'd get a little bit older
Lawrence, KS  66045                   |   and a little bit slower..."
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