Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!ispd-newsserver!kodak!eastman!hpcore!gerwitz From: gerwitz@hpcore.Kodak.Com (Paul Gerwitz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: Switching from Sun to HP: some general questions Message-ID: <1875@eastman.UUCP> Date: 24 Apr 91 13:50:24 GMT References: <430045@hpnmdla.hp.com> Sender: news@eastman.UUCP Reply-To: gerwitz@Kodak.com Organization: Eastman Kodak Co. Lines: 40 In article <430045@hpnmdla.hp.com>, darrylo@hpnmdla.hp.com (Darryl Okahata) writes: |> In comp.sys.hp, scottm@spiderman.spider.co.uk (Scott Mackie) writes: |> |> > The GNU stuff especially has been a pain (I even got assembler patches from |> > HP Support for Emacs 18.55) although I'm told recent releases have better |> > support for HPUX. |> |> This year, people within HP contributed a number of programs to |> Interex (an HP user's group), for inclusion on their contrib tape. |> Among these was a copy of a version of GNU Emacs used within HP. It's |> basically vanilla GNU Emacs with a *lot* of added features; I've |> included a list of features at the end of this message. |> |> If anyone is bringing up GNU Emacs for the first time on an HP |> workstation, I recommend getting a copy of the Interex contrib tape with |> this version of Emacs, as it is a complete package with full |> laserjet-ready documentation. Note, however, that this is a completely |> unsupported program. |> |> -- Darryl Okahata |> UUCP: {hplabs!, hpcea!, hpfcla!} hpnmd!darrylo |> Internet: darrylo%hpnmd@relay.hp.com |> This version of EMACS is part of the 3110 release of the Interex Contributed Software Library CSL/HPUX. The CSL is one of the benefits of membership in Interex, the International Association of HP Computer Users. {I should know, I'm the CSL/HPUX committee chair} Contact Interex at (408) 738-4848, ask to talk to Steve Souza. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Paul F Gerwitz WA2WPI | SMTP: gerwitz@kodak.com | | Eastman Kodak Co | UUCP: ..uunet!atexnet!kodak!eastman!gerwitz | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Paul F Gerwitz WA2WPI | SMTP: gerwitz@kodak.com | | Eastman Kodak Co | UUCP: ..uunet!atexnet!kodak!eastman!gerwitz | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+