scott@scirtp.UUCP (Scott Crenshaw) (10/17/85)
We are currently running a version Montgomery 3.4 emacs
on a 80186-based unix supermicro; we have a small model compiler
and 64K split addressing (64K for data and 64K for program).
1) Does anyone have bug fixes, updates, or general info on this
version of emacs ?
2) Are there any other versions of emacs available in the
public domain that we can run (subject to the addressing limitations/
features :-) stated above) ? How can we get more information on those ?
3) How does one implement macros ? If you can recommend a good
reference for emacs, it will be much appreciated.
4) How does one get the M-_ (underline) to work ? Our terminals have
an underline command in termcap.
As many say, thanks in advance !!
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Scott Crenshaw {akgua,decvax}!mcnc!rti-sel!scirtp
SCI Systems , Inc. Research Triangle Park, NC
The views represented may or may not be those of my employer.ron@brl-sem.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>) (10/21/85)
> > We are currently running a version Montgomery 3.4 emacs > on a 80186-based unix supermicro; we have a small model compiler > and 64K split addressing (64K for data and 64K for program). > 1) Does anyone have bug fixes, updates, or general info on this > version of emacs ? This EMACS came from Bell Labs. It was freely available around the net at one point and was the foundation for early versions of Zimmermans (now CCA) EMACS. All of a sudden, Bell really tightened up and decided that this code was not in the public domain or available. However, recently the source has become available through the UNIX Toolchest for moderate fee. > 2) Are there any other versions of emacs available in the > public domain that we can run (subject to the addressing limitations/ > features :-) stated above) ? How can we get more information on those ? When Montgomery's EMACS got absorbed in controversy we switched to JOVE (Jonathon's Own Version of EMACS) which appeared first on one of the USENIX distribution tapes. The author is Jonathon Payne then of Lincoln- Sudbury Regional High School but now working for BBN I think. If it's not in the public domain, it is relatively easy to get a copy for free. WARNING: someone was giving out an IBM-PC version which is not very good. If you want to port JOVE to something other than a IBM-PC, I suggest you don't start with these sources. I ported JOVE to an INTEL 310 (80286) using medium model. GNU is the other public domain emacs. It's very large and rather tied to 4 BSD right now, but people are porting it to things like VMS. -Ron
robin@medstar.UUCP (Robin Cutshaw) (10/23/85)
> If you want to port JOVE to something other than a IBM-PC, I suggest you > don't start with these sources. > I ported JOVE to an INTEL 310 (80286) using medium model. > I have a port of JOVE for the PC/AT under Xenix that seems to work well... -robin -- ---- Robin Cutshaw Dir. R&D MedSTAR, inc. (404) 325-2441 uucp: ...!{akgua,gatech}!medstar!robin