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From: nbvs@cl.cam.ac.uk (Nicko van Someren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: anybody ported GNU Emacs?
Keywords: Emacs
Message-ID: <1991Jun5.113445.2958@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Date: 5 Jun 91 11:34:45 GMT
References: <906@vaxc.aud.auc.dk> <1991Jun4.004249.14376@cl.cam.ac.uk> <2618@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>
Reply-To: nbvs@cl.cam.ac.uk (Nicko van Someren)
Organization: U of Cambridge Comp Lab, UK
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In article <2618@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> marksv%t3b@uk.ac.man.cs (marksv) writes:
>	You did distribute a few copies of GNU Emacs, as I understand it.
Well fancy that!  I never even noticed.  I thought I was sending out copies of
MicroEMACS with a windowed RISC OS front end.

>                                                 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.

Well if it handles a POSIX compliant set of UNIX library calls ;-) then I will
have another look!

Nicko


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