Path: utzoo!telly!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!monster.cis.ohio-state.edu!bob From: bob@monster.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs Subject: Re: Babyl Format used in rmail (GNU Emacs) Regexp Message-ID: Date: 18 Apr 89 05:24:50 GMT References: <1416@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu> <8904171801.AA02514@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Computer & Information Science Lines: 16 In-reply-to: jym@WHEATIES.AI.MIT.EDU's message of 17 Apr 89 18:01:24 GMT In article <8904171801.AA02514@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu> jym@WHEATIES.AI.MIT.EDU writes: I haven't looked closely, but GNU Emacs info files look a lot like TOPS-20 info files. Are they the same? Could all those great TOPS-20 info files be used with GNU Emacs? Yes. I imagine it wouldn't be hard to convert them, at least! The conversion isn't tough: I recently FTPd babyl, jargon, and satire from the local -20, and more will likely follow. If it's a legal Info format file (jargon took a little touching up) then just add it to info/dir and it's on the air. We should probably keep the palx/11 cross-assembler and pdp-10 machine references around just for nostalgia :-)