[comp.emacs] HELP - where can I get Freemacs?

zmacv91@doc.ic.ac.uk (K D Rigotti) (02/13/90)

Recently I have been hearing nice things about a wee fully featured emacs
beasty by the name of Freemacs (or something similar) for the IBM PC. During
the summer I have to work on a PC and I'm damned if I'm going to write
programs with 'PC-Write' again like I did last year, so I desperately need to
get hold of something better. We have MicroGnu (version 1a !) in our
comp.sources.unix archive here but that's buggy and isn't as fully featured as
I hear Freemacs is.

The where-abouts of the Freemacs sources or a bug-free version of MicroGnu
would be very welcome (preferably in the UK but I can probably persuade
someone here to fetch from over the pond for me if I have to).

Replies and 'me-too's  by MAIL to the address below please.

Thanks in advance.

Kevin.


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nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) (02/14/90)

In article <ZMACV91.90Feb13133709@tsun7.doc.ic.ac.uk> zmacv91@doc.ic.ac.uk (K D Rigotti) writes:

   Recently I have been hearing nice things about a wee fully featured
   emacs beasty by the name of Freemacs (or something similar) for the
   IBM PC.

   The where-abouts of the Freemacs sources or a bug-free version of MicroGnu
   would be very welcome (preferably in the UK but I can probably persuade
   someone here to fetch from over the pond for me if I have to).

Um, Kevin, it's not a pond anymore -- it's more like a puddle.

The Freemacs howtoget.it file follows:

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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