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From: dan@mdbs.uucp (Daniel Lawrence)
Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer,comp.emacs
Subject: Re: EMACS
Summary: MicroEMACS current version
Keywords: MicroEMACS Freemacs
Message-ID: <1991May17.143822.11520@mdbs.uucp>
Date: 17 May 91 14:38:22 GMT
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In article <1991May14.202420.26958@cci632.cci.com> keb@cci632.cci.com (Ken Bernstein) writes:

> Can someone tell me the most current version of MicroEMACS. I have a copy
>of version 3.9; dated 1987, but it doesn't seem to work. Before I spend a
>lot of time debugging it, I'd like to know if there is a more current version. 

	Many people are using version 3.9 of MicroEMACS with no
problems. Please try to be more specific when you make a statement like
this, under what machine/OS does it fail and how does it fail. Also
where did you get this version.... a lot of people hack at it and
redistribute, not always maintining its functionality.

	The current distribution version is 3.10 and is available from
midas.mgmt.purdue.edu for anonymous FTP outside the hours 8 am to 5pm
weekdays (central time). Version 3.11 is in BETA test right now.

> Does anyone have experience with both Freemacs and MicroEMACS and have an
>*objective* opinion of the two? Or, is there another shareware EMACS for
>MS-DOS boxes that is superior to the two that I have mentioned?

	Well, I would be hard pressed to call me objective....

	Freemacs is an MSDOS editor written in assembly code and is very
fast. It is built around a language called MINT and is easily extensable
using that language. It edits files up to 64K in length. It has very
good support (Russ Nelson is on the net and active).

	MicroEMACS is a very portable editor, running on many different
platforms. It has an extention language, and can be customized in many
ways. It is written in C and can be easily ported to new machines. I
support this editor here and on my BBS.

>	Thomas W. Banister		
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