Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!labrea!decwrl!hplabs!hp-pcd!uoregon!omepd!mipos3!cpocd2!nate From: nate@cpocd2.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: EMACS on an IBM? Message-ID: <835@cpocd2.UUCP> Date: Tue, 1-Sep-87 17:56:26 EDT Article-I.D.: cpocd2.835 Posted: Tue Sep 1 17:56:26 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 4-Sep-87 01:44:20 EDT References: <6622@eddie.MIT.EDU> <14104@topaz.rutgers.edu> Reply-To: nate@cpocd2.intel.COM (Nathan Hess) Distribution: na Organization: Intel Corp., ASIC Services Operation, Chandler AZ. Lines: 19 In article <14104@topaz.rutgers.edu> ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) writes: >It would be very hard indeed to run EMACS on an IBM mainframe running >MVS or VM/CMS in the normal environment as all CRT traffic is characterized >as running in the 3270 framework. The 3270 edits the user input locally >and then transmits it as a whole to the host. There is no easy way to >go into the "raw mode" style that EMACS operates in. Has anyone successfully ported GNU Emacs, just running in batch mode, to VM/CMS? Given the -interrupt nature of IBM hardware, I wouldn't see much hope of getting interactive Emacs sessions going, as Ron says; however, it would be nice for all the Emacs-Lisp editing and file-massaging scripts I've written to run w/o change on the IBM. --woodstock -- "How did you get your mind to tilt like your hat?" ...!{decwrl|hplabs!oliveb|pur-ee|qantel|amd}!intelca!mipos3!cpocd2!nate : nate@cpocd2.intel.com ATT : (602) 961-2037