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From: pete@wlbr.UUCP (Pete Lyall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m6809
Subject: Re: Editors and memory
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Date: Thu, 21-May-87 12:48:03 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 21 12:48:03 1987
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Keywords: Text bigger than memory

In article <921@vaxb.calgary.UUCP> ingoldsby@calgary.UUCP (Terry Ingoldsby) writes:
>If anyone has a working version of microemacs for the CoCo III I'd be very
>interested in getting a copy.  Some time ago I got the source code for a
>version of uemacs that I never got around to porting for the CoCo III.
>
>I'd be interested in any other editors that can edit files larger than
>available memory.  

Terry (and all),

The os9 UG LIB has a version of Uemacs for both the level I coco, and
the OSK machines. I have a version of the 6809 version that was ported
to LII by Carl Kreider (methinks...). It still only allows two
windows, expects only an ASCII type terminal, and you must #define
certain terminal control strings. Also, I feel it's a tad on the slow
side.

Some folks on compuserve are working on a makeover of a previously
released LI coco type editor - SLED. The fellow has done a nice job
so far, and has versions for vanilla and COCO3 LII (I have *forced*
the vanilla version on him ... :^) ). Currently, it also uses #defines
for configuration to various terminals (sigh), but with help from a
few of the fellows on the forum (CIS), we are working at coming up
with some terminal-independant library stuff. I already have a lot of
groundwork laid here, and and expecting some code later in the week
from a fellow named Heitzo of MetaMedia, who has developed & tested
a complete set of C terminal primitives.

This brings rise to a question I have been wanting to ask for a *long*
time:

Should we initiate action to get a SOURCES newsgroup up here for OS9??
I have *countless* things from the Forum, other programmers, and self
written that I'd love to post, if there were some sanctioned way to do
it. Among the 1st is the 'AR' program - it's *somewhat* like MESSDOS's
'ARC' in that it batches files together into an 'archive', and
compresses those files that are not binary. We have been using this a
s a pseudo-standard for almost a year on CIS for moving multi-file
collections to and fro with a fair degree of acceptance and
efficiency. '.Ar' files could be uuencoded and shipped about the
newsgroup. Of course, we could also use the standard SHAR format.

In any case, I'd like to get some feedback from the group on the
subject of source postings, whether a separate newsgroup is merited,
etc.



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