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From: lusgr@vax1.cc.lehigh.edu (Steve Roseman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Updated (w/X) GNU Emacs changes available
Message-ID: <113.2763ad4f@vax1.cc.lehigh.edu>
Date: 10 Dec 90 20:44:15 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University
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I am pleased to announce the availability of a cleaned-up, slightly improved
set of files and mods for running GNU Emacs 18.55 under AIX 3.1.  The only
functional difference is that X-windows now works (albeit by using a kludge.)

The changes are available at byron.u.washington.edu (128.95.48.32) in the file
/pub/aix/RS6000/gnuemacs/emacs-aixV3.shar.Z.  (Note: this is a compressed shar
file.  Get the file in binary mode, uncompress it, and 'sh' it.) Note also
that you need the 'patch' utility to apply some of the changes. 

The good news is that X-Windows works for as much as I use it.  I don't use X
features for much more than automatically starting up with xinit and using
the mouse to position the cursor.  The bad news is that I got it to work by
hardcoding X version 11 into lisp/term/x-win.el.  (For some reason the
variable 'window-system-version' does not get set properly.  Anybody with more
time want to fix it???  I already spent/wasted enough time trying to figure it 
out.)

I am willing to answer questions about installation.  Sorry, but real problems
are beyond the scope of my experience.

Thanks to Eliot Lim for putting the file up, after I sent him about a half-dozen
different versions of the file.

(PS.  Don't ask about the dumping version.  I haven't gotten in touch with the
gentleman doing the work since before Thanksgiving.  Question to those in the
Southern Hemisphere - is it spring break time now???)

Steve

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Steve Roseman 
Lehigh University Computing Center
LUSGR@VAX1.CC.Lehigh.EDU