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From: marksv%t3b@uk.ac.man.cs (marksv)
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Subject: Re: anybody ported GNU Emacs?
Keywords: Emacs
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Date: 4 Jun 91 14:03:35 GMT
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In article <1991Jun4.004249.14376@cl.cam.ac.uk> nbvs@cl.cam.ac.uk (Nicko van Someren) writes:
>In article <906@vaxc.aud.auc.dk> mmj@.vlsi.auc.dk (Mads Meisner-Jensen) writes:

>>Has anybody ported GNU Emacs to the archimedes?

>I have had a look at GNU Emacs (the Pillingthing was MicroEMACS) and it is
>so full of UNIXisums that I gave up.  If there is great demand I will have
>another look but I think it will be many months work unless someone writes
>a UNiX lib for RISC OS that does pipes, fork and a few other UNIX nasties.
>
>Nicko

	You did distribute a few copies of GNU Emacs, as I understand it.
However they required rather a lot of memory :-) Huw Rogers
(rogersh@uk.ac.man.cs.p4) has written UNIXlib for RISCOS. It handles vfork &
exec so pipes should be possible. It's in testing at the moment - should be
released when any bugs have been fixed.

Vaughan
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