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From: halpern@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (David Halpern)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: msdos GNU emacs?
Message-ID: <3710@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>
Date: 19 Feb 91 14:17:25 GMT
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In article <KTW.91Feb19072720@cbnewsb.ATT.COM> 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.

David Halpern         halpern@casbah.acns.nwu.edu
Northwestern University
Evanston Illinois