tim@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (Timothy L. Kay) (07/11/89)
It occured to me that somebody with a DOS extender that supports 386 mode should be able to port GNU Emacs fairly easily. Anybody out there with Metaware C (or some other similar product) willing to do us MS-DOS on 386 users a favor? Tim
terry@tah386.manhattan.ks.us (Terry Hull) (07/11/89)
In article <11253@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> tim@cit-vax.UUCP (Timothy L. Kay) writes: >It occured to me that somebody with a DOS extender that supports >386 mode should be able to port GNU Emacs fairly easily. Anybody >out there with Metaware C (or some other similar product) willing >to do us MS-DOS on 386 users a favor? > I think that you will find this to be a large task. There are LOTS of UNIX dependancies in GNU Emacs. Not the least of the problems would be writing a program to dump the executable xemacs with the lisp code loaded. I suggest using one of the micro-Emacs variants for DOS. -- Terry Hull Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Kansas State University Work: terry@eecea.eece.ksu.edu, rutgers!ksuvax1!eecea!terry Play: rutgers!ksuvax1!eecea!tah386!terry
gors@well.UUCP (Gordon Stewart) (07/12/89)
In article <11253@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> tim@cit-vax.UUCP (Timothy L. Kay) writes: >It occured to me that somebody with a DOS extender that supports >386 mode should be able to port GNU Emacs fairly easily. Anybody >out there with Metaware C (or some other similar product) willing >to do us MS-DOS on 386 users a favor? > >Tim I Have the Phar Lap Assembler and DOS XTENDER, and the Micro Way NDP C compiler. I'd be willing to give it a shot, having been relatively successful at porting other "portable" code. The one caveat is that if the code uses ANY FLOATING POINT WHATSOEVER (which is unlikely), it will only work on a '386 with an FPU (80*87 or Weitek). But, hey -- let's shove it and see if it breaks! -- {apple, pacbell, hplabs, ucbvax}!well!gors gors@well.sf.ca.us (Doolan) | (Meyer) | (Sierchio) | (Stewart)