Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!spool.mu.edu!uunet!mcrware!mwca!bill From: bill@mwca.UUCP (Bill Sheppard) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: msdos GNU emacs? Message-ID: <1812@mwca.UUCP> Date: 20 Feb 91 17:05:03 GMT References: <1991Feb19.025123.12089@agate.berkeley.edu> <3710@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> <1991Feb19.204358.16742@sbcs.sunysb.edu> Organization: Microware Systems Corp., Santa Clara, CA Lines: 29 In article <1991Feb19.204358.16742@sbcs.sunysb.edu> cbrown@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (Charles T Brown) writes: [various discussion of availability of *emacs for MS-DOS deleted] My distribution of MicroEmacs V3.10 has #ifdefs for MS-DOS, it should compile right up. I received it for OS-9 compilation, but it looks like the "standard" distribution, though I'm not sure where that should come from (I don't have FTP access). >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?! One of the _very_nifty_ command files included splits the screen into two windows, one which is MicroEmacs, the other DOS (all being handled by an Emacs macro piping commands to and from DOS). You certainly couldn't run Lotus in the window, but you can do most file operations, and I suspect if you ran a program things would drop back to MicroEmacs after execution (I haven't played with it too much). (Please don't email me requesting the source - I have modified it for my own OS-9 needs, and didn't isolate my changes from the other included source. Also, I'm not well-equipped site-wise to handle many file requests. Thanks!) -- ############################################################################## # Bill Sheppard -- bills@microware.com -- {uunet,sun}!mcrware!mwca!bill # # Microware Systems Corporation --- OS-9: Seven generations beyond OS/2!! # ######Opinions expressed are my own, though you'd be wise to adopt them!###### Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com