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From: nelson@zeus.mgmt.purdue.edu (J. Nelson Howell)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Info about newest version of MicroEMACS
Message-ID: <1991Mar25.162716.24068@zeus.mgmt.purdue.edu>
Date: 25 Mar 91 16:27:16 GMT
References: <1991Mar22.235022.26410@athena.mit.edu>
Organization: Krannert Graduate School of Management, Purdue University
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In article <1991Mar22.235022.26410@athena.mit.edu> drk@athena.mit.edu (David R Kohr) writes:
>
>Scott Telford (scott%cs.hw.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk) recently announced
>on comp.windows.ms.programmer that a new mostly-bugfix version of
>MicroEMACS, v. 3.10m, was available on midas.mgmt.purdue.edu.  I asked him
>a few questions about the new version and future MicroEMACS development
>in general; I thought his responses would be of general interest to this
>group.
>
>>I can't FTP to midas.mgmt.purdue.edu; it denies access to user "anonymous".
>>Does this machine not allow anonymous FTP at all, or only at restricted
>>times?
>
>Dan says (in the article he posted to comp.emacs when v3.10e was
>released) that anonymous FTP is available "outside the hours of 8am to
>5:30pm central time". Also midas.mgmt.purdue.edu may also be
>zeus.mgmt.purdue.edu. [ ... ]

Midas is currently a pointer to zeus.  In the future (maybe, hopefully,
canicanicani???) there will be an actual machine behind the midas name.
Anonymous access to midas is restricted to the hours above except that it
is eastern standard time (no daylight saving here).

>>Also, what is the story on new MicroEMACS development?  Dan Lawrence told me
[ ... ]

>The last I heard about 3.11 was that it would be released before the end
>of last year(!).

Unfortunately, Dan has been busy on another project and has not had time to
answer many email requests.  His project will be on hold for the month of
April, and he will (or I will pester him until he does) get 3.11 out by the 
end of April.  He has received a number of new features to incorporate, 
including support for Windows 3.0.

>
>BTW, Dan posted an article to comp.emacs on March 10 (about the block
>mode command page) from the address dan@mdbs.uucp.

That address should work, but if it doesn't, you can mail to him at
dan@midas.mgmt.purdue.edu.

[ ... ]

>>Also, the documentation hasn't been updated in ages.  I've volunteered to
>>help with this (especially in production of a troff rather than SCRIBE 
>>version of the manual), but Dan Lawrence hasn't been answering my messages 
>>at all.
>
>A troff version would be more useful than Scribe-format, but I think TeX
>would be the best format to use (it seems to be superceding troff in
>most places). What *is* really needed though, is a properly-formatted
>ASCII version - the emacs.txt file with v3.10 is appalling!
>

The documentation is being re-written for 3.11.  Dan is working with a 
technical writer on this part.  I don't know what the format will be, but
I plan to produce a PostScript version if Dan doesn't.



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