larry@JPL-VLSI.ARPA.UUCP (03/31/87)
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MicroEMACS is available from various sources in several versions. V30 was
(I seem to recall) Dan Kegel's version of Dave Conroy's original program.
It is available from SEISMO in mod.sources/Volume8 under the name MicroGNU,
if memory serves.
However, you may prefer to get the latest version by Dan Lawrence. V3.8b is
on SIMTEL20 in PD:<MSDOS.MICRO-EMACS>EMACS*38B.ARC. V3.8f can be gotten
from The Programmer's Room bulletin board at (317) 742-5533. The BBS is
usually available 24 hours at 300/1200 baud. If you use KERMIT be sure to
set your end to 8 bits, no parity.
I have 3.8f and it is nice. However, you must compile it with the large
memory model and it takes up around 100 KBytes. That includes a fairly
complete macro extension language, regular expression find and replace, file
en- and de-cryption, automatically sensing and adjusting to the graphics
adaptor.
In comparing Conroy/Lawrence's microEMACS to the others on PC's, I'd say
it comes in behind Epsilon and UniPress EMACS, but not far behind. I use it
because I have to swap between AT's and XT's, several supermicros, VAXes
under both Unix and VMS, and two different mainframes. Lawrences's uEMACS
compiles and runs on all of them, so I don't go crazy when I swap from one
to the other. (It also runs on Ataris and Apples, but that's not relevant
to me.)
Larry @ jpl-vlsi.arpa