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From: coolidge@cs.uiuc.edu (John Coolidge)
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Subject: Re: How to install Emacs? (wuarchive's Emacs... Grr.)
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Date: 11 Jun 91 22:27:52 GMT
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alexis@panix.uucp (Alexis Rosen) writes:
>Maybe I was spoiled by Cnews, nn, or by the various GNU C, GDB, G++ binaries
>on wuarchive. But when I took the latest GNU EMACS from wuarchive, I was
>very unpleasntly surprised. While the software appears to work with A/UX
>the installation instructions, which consist of one incorrect line, are
>enough to make me want to tear out my hair. (Wait, why should I suffer?
>I'll tear out the author's hair...) The instructions say, "type make in the
>emacs directory." This does _NOT_ work. Perhaps if there were some indication
>as to what the name of that directory were supposed to be, it might?

Sorry about this; I did _not_ do the emacs port on wuarchive. I probably
should copy over Ron Flax's port from afsg.apple.com; it does work
correctly. I've done a port (based on the afsg version) of 18.57;
unfortunately, I'm currently not in a position to get it out (hopefully
soon, though - but I said that a couple months ago :-().

--John

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