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From: WANCHO@simtel20.arpa (Frank J. Wancho)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: ELLE vs. MICROEMACS?
Message-ID: <918@louie.udel.EDU>
Date: 2 Jan 88 06:30:43 GMT
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Has anyone tried porting MICROEMACS into the MINIX environment and
compared it with ELLE?  (It has a V7 conditional, so it *may* be
"easy.")  I've successfully brought up MICROEMACS on various Unix
minis where gnuemacs wouldn't come up (and would have been overkill if
all that is needed is a small, fast screen editor with macro
capabilities).

MICROEMACS 3.9 is available from a variety of net locations, including
SIMTEL20.ARPA in PD1:<MISC.MICRO-EMACS> in individual source files and
PD1:<MSDOS.MEMACS> in several large ARC files for the source, doc, and
MSDOS .EXE files.

I've mentioned this program to Dr. T, and he expressed several
concerns, including ease of port, small model limitations, linkability
in the MINIX world, maximum size of files in both individual buffers
and total, and whether the buffers are cached as ELLE does.  I don't
have those answers.  Maybe somebody else does?

--Frank