Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!cmcl2!sbcs!eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu!cbrown From: cbrown@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (Charles T Brown) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: msdos GNU emacs? Message-ID: <1991Feb19.204358.16742@sbcs.sunysb.edu> Date: 19 Feb 91 20:43:58 GMT References: <1991Feb19.025123.12089@agate.berkeley.edu> <3710@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> Sender: usenet@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Usenet poster) Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook Lines: 45 In article <3710@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> halpern@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (David Halpern) writes: >In article ktw@cbnewsb.ATT.COM (Ken Wolman) writes: >> >>This probably won't answer your questions, but what the hell?... I've >>tried a variety of MS-DOS Emacs packages--MicroGnuEmacs, Freemacs, >>MicroEmacs, and Jove--and the closest to the "real thing" that I've >>found in terms of command structure and handling is Freemacs. It is >>available via anonymous ftp from grape.ecs.clarkson.edu: the last time >>I looked it was in /pub/Freemacs, but don't quote me. It's one >>serious flaw is its ability to handle large documents, i.e., anything >>over 64K: it just won't do it. >> >I've tried freemacs(from the Clarkson site) on my Zenith 386 pc and had >lots of problems. My computer kept on crashing for no good reason. >I wonder whether anyone else has experienced the same type of problems. >May be there are other flwas besides the 64k barrier that I'm not aware >of. Does anyone know whne the next version of freemacs coming out? > > >For those involved in the development of GNU Emacs, it would be great to >have a version for pcs. I'm sure that there are lots of people >interested. Umm. A friend of mine, and I, are considering porting it to OS/2 ASAP (as soon as I get an OS/2-running machine! :-); but to the question of porting it to DOS, it just really isn't possible. I mean, what _I_ like about GNU Emacs is the ability to run a sub-shell in it, and feed it input; you want to try writing that in DOS?! Freemacs is really the best thing out so far; but the problem is, it is incredibly slow... If anyone is interested in porting it to DOS, give me a mail; I'd be interested in seeing how they'd do it... :-) > >David Halpern halpern@casbah.acns.nwu.edu >Northwestern University >Evanston Illinois -- "Never put off until tomorrow, that which can be done the day after tomorrow" -- C. Titus Brown, anonymous student, brown@max.physics.sunysb.edu UNIX is good, you say? Which UNIX, say I!