Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!nelson From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: GNU Emacs for the PC Message-ID: Date: 28 Mar 89 01:03:00 GMT References: <218@sppy00.UUCP> Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu Distribution: na Organization: Clarkson University, Postdam NY Lines: 23 In-reply-to: jmv@sppy00.UUCP's message of 27 Mar 89 17:56:39 GMT In article <218@sppy00.UUCP> jmv@sppy00.UUCP (Jim Vickroy) writes: All of this discussion on GNU Emacs for the PC has lead me to ask a couple of questions: 1. Has it been ported? No. 2. Is the source available? Yes. 3. Is it in the public domain? No, but it has a copyright that will ensure it will remain freely copyable. 4. Based upon a 'yes' for #3: Where can I get it? FTP to prep.ai.mit.edu, or buy the tape from the Free Software Foundation. You're not going to get very far, since the executable alone is 1.2 meg, and I'm told that its memory usage rapidly rises into the 3-4 Meg range. But have you looked at Freemacs yet? It's freely copyable, programmable, and tries to look like GNU Emacs. It's only major failing is that it won't edit files larger than 64K, but I am finally working on fixing that... -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) If you can, help others. If you can't, at least don't hurt others--the Dalai Lama