chaim@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Dr. Chaim Dworkin) (08/19/90)
Last month I posted a request here for an ftp site for emacs which can
run under VMS. I'd sincerely like to thank all the people who answered!
I'd also like to apologize to those folks who I offended by
my comment, "please respond by e-mail; I don't frequently read this group"
I didn't realize that was such an inflammatory statement and I will not
likely make it again.
One person requested a summary and I'm happy to oblige. The following
is a selection from the responses I received.
From grant@flipper.Miami.EDU Fri Jul 13 12:43:19 1990
Chaim: got it via anonymous ftp at addvax.llnl.gov
This is emacs version 18.55 (current) for vms 5.x
If you have vms5.3-1, the xwindows stuff will work.
From xberri%europa.decnet@arecibo.aero.org Fri Jul 13 13:33:12 1990
Try anonymous ftp from "ctrsci.cc.utah.edu" (I don't know the ip number off
hand). I ftp'd gnuemacs 18.55 from there and it works great. Take a look
at the readme files on the machine for more information.
From catone@dsl.cis.upenn.edu Fri Jul 13 17:09:23 1990
By the way, the entire emacs backup set is huge, like 55,000 blocks or
something; then you need to append all the parts together, and change the
blocksize, and unback it. The instructions are clear, but plan on having
60 megs or so of disk space. If you don't have that, we can get together
and ftp the individual directories from Wharton, which takes much less space
( < 15 megs, I believe).
From BRAND@addvax.llnl.gov Fri Jul 13 17:33:18 1990
Try ADDVAX.LLNL.GOV via anonymous ftp. EMACS1855-VMS.BCK is a BACKUP saveset
of EMACS 18.55 for VMS (with DIRED but no DECWindows support).
EMACS1855-VMS-DECWINDOWS.BCK supports DECWindows (VMS 5.3 for sure, earlier
possibly??). They are BIG savesets - about 17 Mbytes each. Suggest you just
get one (obviously, the one with DECWindows support is a superset of the
other!)
From BEEBE@science.utah.edu Fri Jul 13 19:43:14 1990
ctrsci.math.utah.edu has GNU Emacs 18.55 under VAX VMS 5.2
and 5.3 for anonymous ftp. The 00readme.txt file gives
details.
From MIKE@cisco.nosc.mil Mon Jul 16 13:24:24 1990
GNU Emacs Popular screen-oriented editor. Runs on a variety of
computers. Developed at MIT.
Availability: F4, F5 (COMPRESSED VMS-BACKUP FILE), F6
MG, formerly MicroGnuEmacs, is a smaller version of
GNU emacs, and is available from: F17 (in pub/mg2a.tar.Z).
Versions for VMS, UNIX, Amiga, and MSDOS may be available.
A VMS backup saveset is available at: F10 (VMSD only).
You may also need reblock.exe to fix backup record size.
F26.
SOURCES: F -> Anonymous FTP, E -> EMAIL to person, S -> SERVER
M -> Postal Service, D -> DECUS tape, P -> Packet radio
Be sure to use BINARY mode on FTP of executables and backups.
F4 PREP.AI.MIT.EDU
F5 MIRIAM.UTAH.EDU
F6 CC.UTAH.EDU
F10 VMSA.OAC.UCI.EDU, VMSD.OAC.UCI.EDU
F17 EMX.UTEXAS.EDU
F26 RIGEL.EFD.LTH.SE (130.235.48.3)