Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!wuarchive!uwm.edu!linac!att!cbfsb!cbnewsb!ktw From: ktw@cbnewsb.ATT.COM (Ken Wolman) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: msdos GNU emacs? Message-ID: Date: 19 Feb 91 13:27:20 GMT References: <1991Feb19.025123.12089@agate.berkeley.edu> Sender: news@cbfsb.att.com Organization: Where The Wild Things Are Lines: 24 In-Reply-To: cotner@ronzoni.berkeley.edu's message of 19 Feb 91 02:51:23 GMT Originator: ktw@cbnewsb.cb.att.com >>>>> On 19 Feb 91 02:51:23 GMT, cotner@ronzoni.berkeley.edu (Carl F. Cotner) said: Carl> I am wondering why there is no available msdos port of GNU emacs. The obvious Carl> answer seems to be emacs' size. If this is indeed the reason, how much memory Carl> would emacs need? Considering that there is an Atari ST port which I assume is Carl> smaller than 1 meg, it would seem that one should be able to port it to msdos Carl> if you used a dos extender. Has anyone done this? It would sure be nice to Carl> have emacs at home. 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. -- Ken Wolman |"At age 35, Paul Gauguin still worked AT&T Bell Laboratories | as a teller in a Paris bank." Short Hills, NJ | "At age 35, Mozart was dead." (201)564-2866--hlwpk!ktw| --NYC subway graffiti, late 1960s