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Subject: emacs for VMS
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Date: Sat, 10-Jan-87 10:12:13 EST
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The current version of EMACS (18.3?) available on MIT-PREP does not
really work on VMS yet. There are problems having to do with memory
allocation and garbage collection (I think). There is a version that
works available for FTP from harvard. It is based on 17.61, but has
several known bugs. Many feel that these bugs make it unusable, but I
use it all of the time.

The currently working version is in ~ftp/vms/gnuemacs and is available
via anonymous FTP. Look at the README file before doing the copy.
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