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 from: al Wed Mar  4 17:13:07 1987 remote from siac
To: inthap!intsc!sun!seismo!prep.ai.mit.edu!info-gnu-emacs
Subject: GNU Emacs
Date: Wed Mar  4 17:13:06 1987


mr. stallman,

since graduating from school, i have come to greatly miss emacs.
being that i consider vi primitive in comparison to emacs, i have
decided to get to GNU distribution tape.  

but, there is a snag...

i'm having a heck of a time porting GNU Emacs to a 286 running 
System V.  the problem stems largely from the fact that an int 
is not the same size as a (char *).  the GNU code makes this 
general assumption, and it's probably is correct for any machine,
except for a '286.  

do you know of anyone who has a port of GNU to such a system?? also,
we have a few '386 systems running System V... 

thanks for any help.


/al guintu