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From: ittfb@dcatla.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: MicroEMACS on VAX/VMS
Message-ID: <220@dcatla.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 23-Apr-87 15:24:28 EST
Article-I.D.: dcatla.220
Posted: Thu Apr 23 15:24:28 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 25-Apr-87 07:31:14 EST
Organization: DCA, Inc., Alpharetta, GA
Lines: 21
Keywords: doesn't work

We recently acquired MicroEmacs from (I think) mod.sources, and have it
running on our SUNs and PCs.  We'd like it to work on our Vaxen, which
run VMS (sorry, it's beyond my control), but we're having some problems.
When it starts up, and anytime it does an amount of screen output, I get
a lot of '^S's and end up in search mode.  A couple of '^G's gets back,
but this happens too often for it to be usable.  The version I have is
3.8b.  Is there a newer one?  I think I've seen references to 3.8g.

The problem appears to be that the VMS version buffers output and then
sends a burst of it too fast for either our terminal or our asynch
network to handle.  I'm willing to put some work into fixing it, but
not if someone else already has.  Any suggestions as to what would be
the best approach?  I'm considering just disabling any response at
all to '^S' from memacs, and changing output to some sort of unbuffered
mode for VMS.  Any insight or suggestions would be appreciated.

Tom Blakely
DCA, Inc.
Alpharetta (yes, it's near Atlanta), GA  30201
(404)442-4866
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