jeff (04/20/83)
Does anybody have more solid information regarding the version of emacs that's now being offered by Unipress? I'll share some of what I learned through a lengthy phone conversation with Fred Pack of Unipress: - Source licenses are now $1000; binaries are $400. They are planning a special binary-only license for the SUN workstation - also $400. - Licenses are per cpu. - They could make special arrangements for sites with lots of cpu's, but they haven't done so yet. - The source license includes "all sources, including mlisp". I'm still not sure he understood that I was asking if mlisp macro libraries are included in the binary license. - They're thinking of a periodic emacs newsletter to exchange information among their user community. They are unfamiliar with the emacs newsgroups on usenet and arpanet. They do not have connections to either one. - They didn't know what emacs version they now have. They've had it for several months and are expecting a new one very soon. - Their current offering "will not run under UNIX 4.1C due to technical impediments having to do with mpx files". They are awaiting updates to allow subprocess communication via the new 4.1C IPC mechanisms. - They agree that good documentation is needed on the details of mlisp argument evaluation, keymap tables, etc. They *do not* have the manpower to write it. They might do so if they encountered a strong demand from their customers. Jeff Stearns ...!decvax!microsoft!fluke!jeff John Fluke Mfg. Co., Everett WA. (206) 356-5064
UTAH-GR.thomas@utah-cs (04/22/83)
From: UTAH-GR.thomas@utah-cs (Spencer W. Thomas) My understanding is that the latest version of Emacs has "compiled" mlisp code, so the binary license may not include mlisp source. =Spencer
reid%Shasta@SU-Score (04/23/83)
From: Brian Reid <reid%Shasta@SU-Score> The recent flurry of messages to Unix Emacs has FINALLY motivated me to do something I've been planning for a year. I updated my Emacs-based mail system MHE so that it does not display the junk from a header, and so that it sorts the header fields into$!canonical order so I can find things. Ahh, this is luxury. Of course there's a "Verbose Type" command that will pop up a window with the full gory text of the whole &^%$# header in it.... Brian Reid Stanford