[comp.sys.hp] Acknowledgement of help with GNU-emacs on the HP850

ian@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk (11/09/88)

I wish to personally thank all the people who mailed solutions to the
problem of mounting GNU Emacs on the Hewlett-Packard 850. 

For the record:
1. The version I was trying to mount was 18.47 (as supplied to me by HP)
   I get the impression that if I was given version 18.52 then none of 
   the problems would have occurred.
2. My own UNEXEC() routine worked perfectly (including the dumping of all 
   the subspace info eg the debug info) once I had included the code to 
   do sigsetreturn(). You sure as hell learn a lot about 850 a.out files
   and the 850 architecture in general writing your own UNEXEC().
3. I knew all along that the HP800's runs HPUX 2.1 and the HP300's run
   HPUX 6.2 - just testing to see if people were awake out there, cos I
   wasn't !!.
   
Questions:
1. What does sigsetreturn() do anyway?  I couldn't find any documentation 
   on it. I assume its a Chapter 2 routine as its defined in 
   <sys/syscall.h>
2. Has HP any plans to make HPUX 2.1 and HPUX 6.2 more compatible (ie 
   async i/o, job control etc.)? 


Once again, THANK YOU.

Kenneth Chan                 (via Ian Finch
Computer Science Dept.            Janet: ian@uk.ac.liv.cs.mva
University Of Liverpool.          Inter: ian%mva.cs.liv.ac.uk@cunyvm.cuny.edu)
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Liverpool
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