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From: catfood@NCoast.ORG (Mark W. Schumann)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: What PC to buy for programming under windows w/Turbo C
Message-ID: <1991Jun17.005015.25550@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 17 Jun 91 00:50:15 GMT
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phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Phil Howard KA9WGN) writes:
>Editors are a matter of taste.  I plan to purchase Epsilon because I
>am familiary with the EMACS command set.... unless someone has already
>ported GNUEMACS to 386 pc's, or has a nice flexible one in C.

Try MicroEmacs 3.11.  It's available from LISTSERV@VM1.NODAK.EDU
or by ftp.

>I have a Gateway 2000 386 system on order now (with 4 megs standard).

My Gateway at work is okay, but watch out for the DOS 3.3 they 
ship it with.  On mine you cannot delete a file whose name begins
with X.  Coincidentally, the XCOPY command always errors out by
saying that a file named 'X' is not found.  Go figure.

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