ta-ari@CUNIXB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Ari Shamash) (05/04/89)
Hello there, Networld! Has anybody managed to get GNU emacs compiled and running? I have heard it is possible, but I would like to find out how difficult it is to do before I attempt to do it. Does anybody have any advice? Thanks, Ari INTERNET: ta-ari@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu See no evil, BITNET: ta-ari@cunixc.bitnet Hear no evil, UUCP: ...!rutgers!columbia!cunixc!ta-ari Speak no evil. ALTERNATE: ny-yn!ari@hombre.masa.com
terry@eecea.eece.ksu.edu (Terry Hull) (05/04/89)
In article <8905041409.AA01880@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu> ta-ari@CUNIXB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Ari Shamash) writes: >Hello there, Networld! > >Has anybody managed to get GNU emacs compiled and running? I have >heard it is possible, but I would like to find out how difficult it is >to do before I attempt to do it. Does anybody have any advice? I thought several people might be interested, so I decided to post my response. If you have XENIX V/386, you can get the GNU distribution and compile it be just editing the Makefiles and config.h. No problem except you need a little disk space. (The full distribution is over 8 MB.) If you have XENIX V/286, GNU Emacs is not worth the trouble. It depends on 32 bit integers, has a massive array used for lisp storage, and would be VERY slow on the '286 even if you could get it to run. For '286 folks, I would recommend Jove or one of the versions of MicroEmacs. I've been using GNU Emacs as my main editor on a XENIX machine for about 18 months now. It runs better (faster) there than it does on an AT&T 3B15. If there are specific questions, please send me mail. -- Terry Hull Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Kansas State University Work: terry@eecea.eece.ksu.edu, rutgers!ksuvax1!eecea!terry Play: tah386!terry@eecea.eece.ksu.edu, rutgers!ksuvax1!eecea!tah386!terry
bill@hpcvlx.HP.COM (Bill Frolik) (05/05/89)
I ported version 18.52 to SCO XENIX/386 a few months ago, and use it
all the time. I've tar'ed it up and put it in the ftp/pub directory
on hplabs!hpcvaaz (aka 'dizzy', 15.255.72.15), where you should be
able to get it via anonymous ftp. (The tar file is over 7 Mbytes,
and should be untared into /usr/local/emacs).
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Bill Frolik Hewlett-Packard
{hplabs!}hp-pcd!bill Corvallis, Oregon