aaa@mtuni.ATT.COM (Aaron Akman) (01/01/70)
Posting-Front-End: GNU Emacs 18.37.4 of Wed Mar 4 1987 on mtuni (usg-unix-v) Sorry to post this to the net, but i did not know how to get this to the original poster... I am running a version of GNU on the 3B2, and it works just fine. Here are some suggestions: *1. my 3B2/400 (and the other one I have been able to access) cannot cat into *or cat (as in display) files more than 1048576 bytes, or even cp this many. >If you can, become root, and change your ULIMIT. This is the size of >the largest file...you can find out more about how to do this by >looking in ulimit(2) in the user's manual, or (i think) there may be a >command to change it..."ulimit 8192" would make you ULIMIT be 4Mbytes. >This should fix your cat problems. *4. Main point: since the executable emacs is 1.5 meg... >Gosh, my executable is way under a Meg! I think I don't compile with the -g option, but even if you think yours will be >1.5 meg, just do this: su root ulimit 8192 sub-shell inherits 8192 su your-id make -- Aaron, mtuni!aaa, 201-957-2751
peter@julian.UUCP (07/22/87)
I was trying to set up some keyboard re-mappings for version 17.VMS4 of GNUEMACS on our VMS system. I read the instructions and created a file named sys$login:.emacs with the appropriate lisp code in it. It never gets loaded. If I load the file manually it works fine except that even when my default directory is sys$login I still have to specify the whole name. Can someone help me with this probably trivial problem? -- Peter Marshall, Data Comm. Manager CCS, U. of Western Ontario, London, Canada N6A 5B7 (519)661-2151x6032 pm@uwovax.BITNET; pm@uwovax.uwo.cdn; peter@julian.uucp; ...!watmath!julian!peter
mende@aramis.rutgers.edu (Bob Mende) (07/28/87)
In article <683@julian.UWO.CDN| peter@julian.UUCP writes: | I was trying to set up some keyboard re-mappings for version 17.VMS4 of | GNUEMACS on our VMS system. I read the instructions and created a file | named sys$login:.emacs with the appropriate lisp code in it. It never gets | loaded. If I load the file manually it works fine except that even when my | default directory is sys$login I still have to specify the whole name. | Can someone help me with this | probably trivial problem? I dont know your problem, but I have my emacs init file in my home directory and it is called .emacs (yes... VMS hates a empty file name and just a extension). What version of emacs are you using??? I have seen the problem with some logical root trees (have not done enough work to define the problem totaly) and I have seen that it will not automaticly complete directory names (remember that directorys are not normal files ( there is no file foo:[dir.subdirectory ... the brackets dont mach)). The other problem (which may been a feature) I have seen is that emacs UPPERCASSES file and buffer names. This is in GNUemacs 18.47 Bob -- mende@rutgers.edu {...}!rutgers!mende mende@pisces.bitnet
kerpelma@othello.steinmetz (Kerpelman) (07/28/87)
--- In article <683@julian.UWO.CDN> peter@julian.UUCP writes: >I was trying to set up some keyboard re-mappings for version 17.VMS4 of >GNUEMACS on our VMS system. I read the instructions and created a file >named sys$login:.emacs with the appropriate lisp code in it. It never gets >loaded. I'm using version 18 but I seem to recall that under version 17, you have to define a logical for your emacs initialization file as follows: $define emacsini sys$login:.emacs Since emacs searches via a logical, the file name can be anything. You can put this statement in your login.com file. If you're planning to use version 18, things change. In particular, I believe the existence of a .emacs file in your sys$login directory is sufficient, as you expected. Also, your initialization file gets executed BEFORE the standard initialization file which can cause some problems. I've seen a work around for this. Hope this is accurate and that it helps. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dan Kerpelman ARPA: kerpelman@ge-crd.arpa GE Corporate R&D UUCP: kerpelman@steinmetz.ge.com Schenectady, NY GE: ctsvax::kerpelman USA tel: (518) 387-5086
krishna@athena.mit.edu ( ???) (08/09/87)
hi. sorry, but I'm new to posting articles, and I'm not sure if a 'followup'
article is exactly what I want to be posting, but...
Does anyone know how I can get a version of gnuemacs for the AT&T 3B2 unix
system V? It doesn't have a lisp compiler, and I'm not sure if it'll
work transferred straight from any source, probably because, well,
I'm a pessimist.
Any help?
Krishna Sethuraman
(krishna@artemis.mit.edu, krishna@msudoc.egr.msu.edu,
seismo!pur-ee!eecae!msudoc!krishna (?)
{allegra,seismo}!mit-eddie!mit-athe>
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RC
RCmrd@SUN.MCS.CLARKSON.EDU ("Michael R. DeCorte") (08/10/87)
I have it up on 3b2/400's. Just get the source and compile. You only need make, cd, ln, rm, cc, tar. That's it (I think there may be a few others but the point is that you need nothing special). mrd@clutx.clarkson.edu
krishna@athena.mit.edu ( ???) (08/13/87)
aarrrgghhh!!! I got ispell from prep, and I can't make it! I am now in the process of transferring emacs after 2 days of crappy ftp problems, and I'm not even sure if it'll go! That person who said that they had the 3b2.. do you have the math accelerator unit and the floating point c compiler? That's _all_ I have. I don't have cc, and I can't rename fpcc to cc, because it won't accept it. Are you also sure that you have the system V os, release 3.0? If not, I'm gonna be pissed... (sorry. having _big_ problems getting stuff to ftp. you understand) does emacs have a $CC variable? even so, can I still make it, even with this freak (/bin/fpcc) of AT&T? Experiencing meltdown, Krishna Sethuraman (krishna@msudoc.egr.msu.edu)
krishna@athena.mit.edu ( ???) (08/13/87)
my face is red. not due to rage, but...well. anyway. ispell.tar needs stat.h to make, and I don't know whaT ELSE (i.e., mine stopped att nnot finding stat and quit) even the mainframes don't have this bit of code. (i.e, msudoc.egr.msu.edu, artemis.mit.edu) . What is it, hat makes it so important, and why isn't it included in the ispell.tar package? (i.e., since it's not unr/include on the big machines I have access to?) ispell.tar is on prep.ai.mit.edu Krishna Sethuraman krishna@msudoc.egr.msu.edu you don't want to see my signature. my mom thinks it's msesy and has ostracized me for it.
krishna@athena.mit.edu ( ???) (08/15/87)
AAAiiiieeee!!!
1. my 3B2/400 (and the other one I have been able to access) cannot cat into
or cat (as in display) files more than 1048576 bytes, or even cp this many.
2. (what does this have to do with emacs?) Aha, what does this have
to do with emacs, you might ask. Well, the tarred, compressed file is
3357174 bytes long (or something like that) and therefore will not
copy anywhere you might want to put it on the 3B2. The only to get it
around is to ftp it (i.e., you have to ftp it to the 3B2 from the
source, then ftp it within the 3B2 to put it into another directory.)
3. uncompress, zcat don't work on a file this big on a 3B2/400, as
you might expect from the 1048576 byte limit on regular cat or cp.
(yeah, so, why don't you just copy the files one by one?)
4. Main point: since the executable emacs is 1.5 meg, I am now
deathly afraid that 3 nights of staying up till 2 am trying to get the
damn thing going will end up in me having all the files, trying to
build emacs, and having Mr. 3B2 tell me that it can't build a file
this big, and me putting the 3B2 under my feet and jumping out the 2nd
story window.
The person who said that you have emacs up and working, does your
machine have a limit on the number of bytes (i.e., 1.04 meg) that can
be xferred around the filesystem? I.e., if you try to
cat >> < 1048576 byte file>
foo bar etc lisp info cpp shortname gnu gdb gas buzz argh
^D
it returns
cat: cannot write (-1/4 bytes written)
or something of the sort
?
and what files are unpacked when emacs is untarred?
the edist.tar.Z file I xferred to a bigger mainframe and untarred
gave me a directory checksum or some other sort of error at
dist-18.47/lisp/abbrev.elc
and quit.
(if (eq receiving-help t)
(breathe sigh-of-relief)
(die horrible-unpleasant-death))
Krishna Sethuraman
krishna@cemux1.cem.msu.edu <-- the 3B2 I'm trying to get it on.