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From: bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Building GNU emacs
Summary: get the current version
Keywords: process.c
Message-ID: <18125@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 19 Jul 88 14:25:07 GMT
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In article <101@iemisi.UUCP> smartin@iemisi.UUCP (Stephen Martin) writes:
>I just got my hands on a copy of GNU emacs ...  approx. Jul 15, 1985,
>I don't know what version (maybe 16?) ... Is this version of Emacs
>very out of date?

Yes.  Approximately three years of concerted development effort by a
lot of very capable people has gone into Emacs since that tape was
cut.  Please scrap what you've got and get the current version
(18.51).  You'll save yourself a lot of trouble.
-=-
 Bob Sutterfield, Department of Computer and Information Science
 The Ohio State University; 2036 Neil Ave. Columbus OH USA 43210-1277
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