Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!wuarchive!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!rpi!clarkson!grape.ecs.clarkson.edu!nelson From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: emacs binaries for msdos wanted Message-ID: Date: 14 Jan 91 04:47:24 GMT References: <1991Jan9.212031.6675@cbnewsc.att.com> <4722@awdprime.UUCP> <1991Jan11.234953.7232@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: @grape.ecs.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu (aka NELSON@CLUTX.BITNET) Distribution: na Organization: /home/sun.soe/ecs/nelson/.organization Lines: 22 In-Reply-To: msp33327@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu's message of Fri, 11 Jan 1991 23:49:53 GMT 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: >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. Ha! Any DOS editor is going to seem like a pretty minimal program when you compare it to GNU Emacs. Yes, Freemacs has a 64K limit. But that's acceptable to a lot of people, and it provides the best emulation of GNU Emacs available on a PC. -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) FAX 315-268-7600 It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear -- Freeman Dyson I joined the League for Programming Freedom, and I hope you'll join too.