garym@cognos.UUCP (Gary Murphy) (06/25/91)
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From: Russ Nelson <sce!mitel!uunet!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!nelson>
To: mitel!sce!cognos!garym
Subject: Re: compile.el equivalent for freemacs or uemacs
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:<MSDOS.FREEMACS>
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
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Copyright 1989, 1990 Michael DeCorte
Help File for The Archive Server
The archive server is a program that gives you the ability to retrieve
files via electronic mail. It is a very dumb program with little
error detection. Thus if you make mistakes, you won't get what you
wanted. This also means that you can ask it to do unreasonable
things, but please don't.
To make the archive server do something you should send an electronic
mail message to archive-server@sun.soe.clarkson.edu. The body of the
message should consist of one command per line. The case of the text
does not matter.
The archive is grouped together via directories. Each directory is
considered an archive. An example archive is "latex-style."
Associated with each archive is an index file as well as a top level
index file that lists all of the archives. You can find out what
archives are available with the command "index."
Supported commands:
help
Sends you this file.
path <mail-path>
"Path" is used to override the mail path that the archive server
chooses from the header of your mail message. You should use this
whenever you know that the return address of your message will not
be useful to the archive server. The archive server only knows
about domain style address. This means that the archive-server
understands name@site.bitnet and name@site.edu and name@site.UUCP
but does not understand name@site. If you have any doubts about
your mail address, you should ask your system administrator for a
correct domain style address. An example use of "path" is
path mrd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu
index [archive...]
"Index" mails to you a listing of the files in the specified
archives. If an archive is not specified, then the index of the
available archives will be sent.
send <archive> <file..>
"Send" mails to you the files in the specified archive. All of
the files that you request will be sent to you archived together
(see "archiver"), possible packed (see "pack"), possible encoded
(see "encoder") and split up into messages that are small enough
to be mailed (see "size"). If you specify an archive and do not
specify any files, then all of the files in that archive will be
sent. You may have as many "sends" in the body of your mail
message as you wish.
encodedsend <archive> <file...>
"Encodedsend" is identical to the command "send" except that the
files are guaranteed to be encoded (see "encoder"). This is
useful if you know that the return message will go through EBCDIC
based computers.
archiver <archiving-method>
You may specify the method of archiving (merging a group of files
into one large file) the files with "archiver". By default, files
that are mailable are simply stuck together with the text "cut
here" between files and; non-mailable files are archived via unix
tar. The available archiving methods are:
arc (the PC program)
dclshar (VMS, creates a file you can unpack with @FILE.COM)
none (the files are simply stuck together)
shar (Unix sh script)
simple (the files are separated by "cut here" - default)
tar (Unix Tar - default for non mailable files)
zoo (Unix, VMS, PC's)
pack <packing-method>
You may specify that the files be packed (compressed) before
delivery. This has the advantage that the mail files will be
smaller. By default the files are not packed. The available
packing methods are:
compress (the Unix command compress)
compact (the Unix command compact - slower than compress)
none
encoder <encoding-method>
Non-mailable files must be converted to something mailable. By
default this is done with "uuencode". You may also specify that
the files must be encoded with the command "encodedsend." The
available encoding methods are:
btoa
rscs
uuencode (default)
size <max-file in bytes>
The archive server splits files up so that they are smaller than
this limit. This is done because many sites have a maximum mail
size limit. A value of 0 means that there is no limit. The
archive server has a default size limit of 100000 bytes. You may
change this if you know that you have different limits. Most (but
not all) uucp sites have a limit of 100000 bytes. Internet and
Bitnet sites should set this to 300000 bytes.
length <number>
Many mailers will truncate long lines. To overcome this the
archive server encodes files that contains lines that are longer
than 130 characters (see "encoder"). If you know that your mail
files will not be truncated then you can set this value to
something larger.
limit <number>
The archive-server limits the amount of data that will be returned
by any one request. This limit is very large. By using this command
you may lower this limit. This is typically done to prevent errors
by the user.
search <string> <archive> <file...>
You may search through the archive for a string. A string is
considered to be any sequence of alphanumeric characters; case
does not matter. If you only provide an archive name then all of
the files in the archive will be searched. You will be returned
all lines that contain the string.
find <string...>
You may search for file names that contain the given string. Case
is significant in the string. You will be returned all file names
that match the given string.
language <string>
This will allow you to change the language that the help files are in
to the named language. English is the only supported language right
now though so this command doesn't really do anything yet.
EXAMPLE
Here is an example message that you could send to the archive-server.
It gives an example of all the supported commands.
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help
language english
path mrd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu
index latex-style isetl
encodedsend latex-style res.sty res-sample.tex
send isetl
archiver tar
pack compress
encoder rscs
size 200000
length 80
search resume texhax texhax.89.001 texhax.89.002
find resume
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APPENDIX
1) Files are considered mailable if they do not have any lines longer
than 130 characters and do not have any characters other than tabs,
carriage returns, newlines, vertical tabs, formfeeds and characters
between space through tilde (using ascii ordering).
2) If you have problems or questions, you should send mail to
archive-management@sun.soe.clarkson.edu.
3) If you need to retrieve a large number of files or very large files
then I strongly encourage you to obtain the archives on magnetic tape
via US-mail. If you choose to do this then mail a self-addressed
stamped tape (8mm, 1/4 inch, 1/2 inch) with a check for $20 made to
Clarkson University and a list of the archives that you want (eg
latex-style and texhax) to:
Rob Logan
ERC
Clarkson University
Potsdam NY 13676
315-268-2292
You can ask for as many archives as will fit on the tape but you can
not ask for individual files. The tape will be written in Unix tar
format. Unless you specify otherwise the tape will be written at the
highest possible density. (1/2 inch @ 6250 BPI, 8mm @ 2.3 G/tape, 1/4
inch @ 60 M/tape). If you do not live in the USA, we will provide
postage if you send a self-addressed tape without stamps and a check
for $40 instead of $20.
NOTE: if the tape is not self-addressed and stamped we will keep that
tape and use it for backups.
To obtain a list of top level archives (eg. latex-style, ISETL,
Freemacs) send a self addressed envelope to the above address.
For your information, the money is used to pay a student to copy the
tapes; any money left over is put into an account to be used
eventually to buy a disk drive dedicated to the archive server.
Contributions are strongly encouraged.
4) If you have an archiving, packing, encoding program that runs under
BSD Unix that I do not have and you would like me to support then
please send it to me. It is very easy to incorporate it into this
package.
5) If you would like to convert the various help files to another
language please contact me.
6) The archive server was written by Michael DeCorte. It consists of
a groups of bourne shell and awk scripts designed to work under BSD
Unix based computers. There are no restrictions on its redistribution
provided the copyright notice is left intact.
7) Unix is a registered trademark of AT&T.
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