Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!CISCO.COM!cire From: cire@CISCO.COM (cire|eric) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs Subject: Re: MS-DOS Message-ID: <8904260056.AA23935@life.ai.mit.edu> Date: 26 Apr 89 00:57:48 GMT References: Sender: daemon@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: GNUs Not Usenet Lines: 31 >> >From info-gnu-emacs-request@prep.ai.mit.edu Tue Apr 25 14:52:42 1989 >> Date: 25 Apr 89 15:07:11 GMT >> From: zs04+@andrew.cmu.edu (Zachary T. Smith) >> Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA >> Subject: MS-DOS >> Sender: info-gnu-emacs-request@prep.ai.mit.edu >> To: info-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu >> >> >> Has anyone out there ever attempted to port GNU-emacs >> (or the better part of it) to MS-DOS? >> >> I'm wondering whether it is feasible or not. >> >> Zach Smith (zs04+@andrew.cmu.edu) Ouch. I wouldn't attempt it. GnuEmacs was written for 32 bit machines (at least 32 bits internally). It is also written assuming a fair amount about the OS on which it is running. It would be a significant headache to move this to such a poor platform as MS-DOS. There is however an editor written to look as much like GnuEmacs (for those things that are implemented) as possible. This is in addition to being as portable as possible. This is called "mg" for micro-gnuemacs. I don't know where it is being archived. I have a copy here and in another place but they aren't really accessable. Sorry. -c