Xref: utzoo comp.emacs:7761 gnu.emacs:2310 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!image.soe.clarkson.edu!news From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.emacs,gnu.emacs Subject: Re: HELP - where can I get Freemacs? Message-ID: Date: 14 Feb 90 03:24:40 GMT References: Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu Distribution: comp,gnu Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam NY Lines: 84 In-reply-to: zmacv91@doc.ic.ac.uk's message of 13 Feb 90 13:37:09 GMT In article zmacv91@doc.ic.ac.uk (K D Rigotti) writes: Recently I have been hearing nice things about a wee fully featured emacs beasty by the name of Freemacs (or something similar) for the IBM PC. The where-abouts of the Freemacs sources or a bug-free version of MicroGnu would be very welcome (preferably in the UK but I can probably persuade someone here to fetch from over the pond for me if I have to). Um, Kevin, it's not a pond anymore -- it's more like a puddle. The Freemacs howtoget.it file follows: Freemacs is a programmable editor. The .EXE file is only 21K because it only contains a language interpreter and text editor primitives. The bulk of the programming is done in MINT, which is a string-oriented language. Freemacs is yet another Emacs clone. Emacs was first written at MIT by Richard M. Stallman. There are a number of Emacs clones for the PC available. Freemacs has three distinguishing characteristics: o Freemacs is free, and it was designed from the start to be programmable. o Freemacs is the only IBM-PC editor that tries to be like GNU Emacs. o Freemacs can only edit files less than 64K in length. You may freely copy this software. I only ask that you send improvements back to me for incorporation into the package for the rest of us. The distribution is available from one or more of the following sources: EMACS15E ARC The executables for emacs15f and MINT code for 15e. EMACS15F ARC The executables for emacs15f. EMACS100 ARC Zenith Z-100 version. Requires EMACS15E. EMACSPEL ARC Spelling checker. EMACSEGA ARC A collection of EGA utilities EMAC15ES ARC The .ASM source. CUHUG BBS: (315)268-6667 - 1200/2400 8N1, 24 hrs. File area 25. No registration required to download Freemacs. Internet: Anonymous FTP to simtel20.army.mil from PD: Internet: Anonymous FTP to grape.ecs.clarkson.edu [128.153.13.196] from /e/freemacs Bitnet && UUCP: Send mail to archive-server@sun.soe.clarkson.edu. You may use archive-server%sun.soe.clarkson.edu@omnigate if you are on Bitnet, or uunet!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!archive-server if you are using UUCP. The mail message should consist of 'help' if you want to learn how to use the archive server, or else if you just want to get Freemacs, then send the following lines as a separate mail message. If you have an unusual return address (i.e. not Bitnet, nor Internet, nor known to uunet), use the 'path' command to give a path relative to one of the above nets. send freemacs emacs15e.aa send freemacs emacs15e.ab send freemacs emacs15e.ac send freemacs emacs15e.ad send freemacs emacs15e.ae send freemacs emacs15e.af The files that you will get back should be concatenated together, run through uudecode, and thence through an unARCer such as arc or pkxarc. Or else send $15 (copying fee) to the author. This will assure you of the latest version. Please specify floppy format: 5.25", 1.2 Meg 5.25", 360K 3.50", 720K Russell Nelson 11 Grant St. Potsdam, NY 13676 -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) Russ.Nelson@$315.268.6667 Violence never solves problems, it just changes them into more subtle problems