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From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (Wm. E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Grrr... uEmacs 3.10 doesn't work under Xenix
Keywords: uEMACS 3.10
Message-ID: <13606@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 13 Apr 89 17:18:16 GMT
References: <56344@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> <9313@j.cc.purdue.edu> <13576@steinmetz.ge.com> <588@ispi.UUCP> <56803@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> <9332@j.cc.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <9332@j.cc.purdue.edu> nwd@j.cc.purdue.edu (Daniel Lawrence) writes:

| 	So, the 10,000 students here at Purdue would then have to
| 1) Fire up MicroEMACS, 2) figure out that they don't have an ANSI
| terminal, 3) Curse me for not providing any support for the hundreds of
| adm-3a, wyse, etc terminals around campus.  Chances are if users get to
| stage 3 they will have to go in and write their own screen drivers to
| get it to work at all.

  I don't think that anyone is suggesting that you should remove the
termcap support you have, but that the ANSI support which you have (more
of less) had for many versions has vanished.

  I don't blame you for sounding defensive, I may not have been too
tactful about mentioning the lack, and certainly several other people
have indicated their displeasure, but ANSI is one solution which allows
me to work with Xenix, V/AT, SunOS, and some fairly bizarre terminals. I
think a lot of us have grown to use memacs very heavily and are upset
that something which has been present has gone away. Many people who
can't change the termcap file find themselves out in the cold with the
new version.
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	bill davidsen		(wedu@crd.GE.COM)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me