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From: bwilliam%peruvian.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Bruce R. Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: emacs binaries for msdos wanted
Keywords: emacs
Message-ID: <1991Jan12.002626.19323@hellgate.utah.edu>
Date: 12 Jan 91 07:26:26 GMT
References: <1991Jan9.212031.6675@cbnewsc.att.com> <4722@awdprime.UUCP> <1991Jan11.234953.7232@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
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In article <1991Jan11.234953.7232@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> msp33327@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Michael S. Pereckas) writes:
>In <4722@awdprime.UUCP> woan@excelsior (Ronald S Woan) writes:
>
>
>>In article <1991Jan9.212031.6675@cbnewsc.att.com>, kca@cbnewsc.att.com
>>(k.c.archie) writes:
>>kc> A friend at work is looking for msdos binaries for emacs.
>>kc> Can anybody point me at FTP sites where it might be?
>>kc> Alternatives are reliable PD software sales places or even
>>kc> commercial outfits.
>
>>Not talking about GNU EMACS, I hope... No way to get that running on
>>MSDOS. There is, of course, microemacs, freemacs, and jove for MSDOS
>>all on the Simtel archives... 
>
>I tried those and didn't like them---they either don't look like GNU
>Emacs at all, or have a 64K limit.  Freemacs seems like a pretty
>minimal program, missing a lot.

Hmmm... how much of a look did you give JOVE?  It is VERY much like the
emacs you are used to using on your UNIX mainframe... and maybe I've set
mine up differently than yours, but I also am limited only by the amount
of memory I have.  If you decide to try it again, let me know and I can
give you a few pointers on setting it up.

JOVE is easily configured with any key bindings you like... including
your own macros.  If you want to have the complete functionality of
emacs and still take advantage of features unique to PC's, JOVE is my
recommendation.

Good luck!

-Bruce

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Bruce R. Williams                "The most beautiful thing we can experience
University of Utah                is the mysterious.  It is the source of all
(bwilliam@peruvian.utah.edu)      true art and science."  -Albert Einstein
Bruce R. Williams                "The most beautiful thing we can experience
University of Utah                is the mysterious.  It is the source of all
(bwilliam@peruvian.utah.edu)      true art and science."  -Albert Einstein