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From: dsill@NSWC-OAS.arpa (Dave Sill)
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Subject: Follow-up: Emacs for MS-DOS
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Date: Wed, 24-Jun-87 13:08:12 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 24 13:08:12 1987
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First, I'd like to thank all who replied to my query for MS-DOS emacs
recommendations.

I received a total of seven replies.  Three strongly recommended Epsilon
from Lugaru (about $150) citing its speed, features, and concurrent
subprocesses.  The only other commercial Emacs mentioned was Brief,
but the person who mentioned it had never used it.

Among the free Emacses, micro-Emacs received four recommendations.
The latest versions can handle 43-line EGA displays, large (how
large?) files, and macros.

Jove was mentioned twice: once favorably and once unfavorably (too
slow).

Freemacs was mentioned twice also.  Both seemed to have experienced
the same difficulties I did with lack of documentation.

I went and grabbed a copy of bigemacs from simtel20
(pd:[msdos.text-editor]bigemacs.arc and bigemacs.hlp) and have been
pretty satisfied with it.  It will certainly suffice until I can
procure a copy of Epsilon.

Thanks again,

Dave Sill
dsill@nswc-oas.arpa