Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!orchid!egisin From: egisin@orchid.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.emacs,comp.sources.d Subject: Re: Desperatelly looking for microemacs 3.9 Message-ID: <11590@orchid.waterloo.edu> Date: Thu, 5-Nov-87 16:56:55 EST Article-I.D.: orchid.11590 Posted: Thu Nov 5 16:56:55 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 7-Nov-87 15:58:10 EST References: <72@cui.UUCP> <5745@j.cc.purdue.edu> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 21 Keywords: microemacs 3.9 Xref: utgpu comp.emacs:1998 comp.sources.d:1401 In article <5745@j.cc.purdue.edu>, nwd@j.cc.purdue.edu (Daniel Lawrence) writes: > A common enough request, but I need to explain why and ask a > question. On June 20th I sent a full MicroEMACS 3.9 distribution kit to > the moderator of comp.unix.sources. He sat on it for three full months. > When someone asked him why, he responded indicating that editors were > simply not a high priority. > > I know that I have put a lot of work into this. Some people have > complained at the frequency which I have posted this in the past. But > the truth is that I have actually made a large amount of changes between > postings. > > So, my question is this. I have version 3.9e running and almost > ready for distribution. Do you want me to post this? Where? (remember, > mod.sources.unix won't post it). > [I'm including this in comp.sources.d too]. Can't you post patches two or three times a year? Every one should be able to get 3.8b from the archives, and apply patches to it. 3.8i was 500K, how big are diffs between successive releases?