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From: charlie@wam.umd.edu (Charles William Fletcher)
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Subject: Re: Emacs 2.0
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Date: 22 Mar 91 03:31:29 GMT
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In article <1991Mar21.231100.11979@leland.Stanford.EDU> kocks@jessica.stanford.edu (Peter Kocks) writes:
>In article <wbtKsIS00WBwAAtUcx@andrew.cmu.edu> jm36+@andrew.cmu.edu (John Gardiner Myers) writes:
>>Emacs 2.0, the NextStep front end to GNU emacs is available on the
>>purdue Next Archives (sonata.cc.purdue.edu and the other machine I
>>can't remember just now) as pub/next/2.0-release/source/Emacs-2.0.tar.Z
>>
>>This is the much-awaited version that works with version 2.0 of the
>>NeXT OS.
>
>Hm... Well, I got the tar from precisely the location you mentioned
>and it does not compile on a NeXTstation running 2.0.  When you do a
>make it looks for an include file called something like,
>/usr/include/streams/error.h .  Now this file does exist on NeXT
>version 1.0, but not in the extended shipment of 2.0.  I believe you
>must have compiled the code on NeXT cube that used to have 1.0 on it,
>but then was upgraded.  Possible?  
>
>Anyway, it looks like it will be great... but not yet.
>
>Thanks
>
>Peter Kocks
>pkocks@chemistry.stanford.edu


I just used the binary that was in the tar file (on an 040 cube) and it works
great--no little marks, no dissappearing emacs when you paste. Works great, so
why compile!

Charlie