Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!lll-winken!iggy.GW.Vitalink.COM!widener!msi.umn.edu!cs.umn.edu!kksys!wd0gol!rathe!ian From: ian@rathe.cs.umn.edu (Ian Hogg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: Switching from Sun to HP: some general questions Message-ID: <1991Apr25.135530.3638@rathe.cs.umn.edu> Date: 25 Apr 91 13:55:30 GMT References: <430045@hpnmdla.hp.com> Organization: Rathe, Inc. Lines: 42 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. > When I first got Emacs running on HP-UX (my first experience whatsoever with Emacs) I followed the instructions instructions that came with it and had to think hard about certain defines and such. When we got Softbench it included detailed instructions on how to build Emacs for HPUX. Maybe someone can post that file or place it somewhere for ftp. If you are using Emacs & X, please take a look at Epoch. I prefer it to the vanilla X support. > -- Darryl Okahata > UUCP: {hplabs!, hpcea!, hpfcla!} hpnmd!darrylo > Internet: darrylo%hpnmd@relay.hp.com > >DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not >constitute the support, opinion or policy of Hewlett-Packard or of the >little green men that have been following him all day. > -- Ian Hogg email: rathe!ian@cs.umn.edu ...!umn-cs!rathe!ian Rathe, Inc ianhogg@cs.umn.edu 366 Jackson Street phone: (612) 225-1401