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From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: EMACS for IBM PC
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Date: 26 Mar 89 23:30:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!mcdonald    Mar 26 17:30:00 1989



>>Does anyone have any news about when the next version of Daniel Lawrence's
>>version of MicroEmacs is going to come out?  Will there even be a next
>>version?  And what about the MicroScribe formatter that he was working
>>on?

>There is a recent announcement in comp.text that it is out and
>available on his BBS. Good luck trying to get logged on! I have
>not yet succeeded since this announcement. I tried his supposedly
>non-beta 3.10 MS-DOS executable and found cockroaches, termites,
>scarab beetles and wood ticks.

Within an hour after typing this, my auto-dialer finally got through.
It compiled easily and now seems to work just fine. 
The phone number is 317-742-5533. It takes about 1 1/4 hours to
download everthing with Xmodem at 2400 baud.