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Subject: Re: monty's emacs..
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Date: Wed, 1-Jan-86 11:56:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan  1 11:56:00 1986
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>Why is it that in light of the existence of GNU emacs, and number of
>other poverful emacses, even an earlier version of monty's emacs cause
>so much contraversy ?? 

Alas, some of us don't have gnu emacs, for reasons other than lack of
wanting it.  It may  or may  not run  on SysV  yet (I've  been out of
touch for a while).  If it does run on SysV, it  probably hasn't been
ported to my machine yet  (masscomp).   I don't  have time  to do the
port.  Even if it has been, since I don't  have a  tape drive, nobody
will send  it to  me anyway  (only a  masscomp with  a cassette drive
could produce media I could use, and as I said, I don't think it runs
on  Masscomp).   So,  I'm whining.   The  point is  that just because
something is free and public domain doesn't mean that everyone should
have it.  Some of us don't have vaxes.   Some  of us  don't have 4.2.
Some of us don't have tape drives, or internet  access.   There are a
lot of PD programs I'd like to have,  like TeX,  RCS, MH  or MMDF and
Gnumacs.  But I have  to live  with nroff,  sccs, the  V7 mailer, and
Unipress  emacs  (which  can  only  laughingly  be  said to  run on a
Masscomp, but it will edit a file if you don't use  any packages, and
if you can figure out the trick it takes to make it run in a Masscomp
window, and if you  ...)(All the  above despite  the fact  that I was
promised a fixed version 6 months ago, 3 months ago, ...   they don't
answer my email any more...)  

Thanks,
Terry Poot
Nathan D. Maier Consulting Engineers
(214)739-4741
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