spolsky-joel@CS.Yale.EDU (Joel Spolsky) (04/10/89)
Argh! Version 3.10 of MicroEmacs no longer works in Xenix. I spent several hours just getting the blasted thing to compile at all, but now various things don't work --- function and cursor keys --- filename completion --- the mode line isn't reverse video SCO Xenix 2.3.2 on a compaq 386. I'll bet there are other things that are now broken, that didn't used to be. If anybody has any solutions yet I'd love to hear them... +----------------+----------------------------------------------------------+ | Joel Spolsky | bitnet: spolsky@yalecs.bitnet uucp: ...!yale!spolsky | | | internet: spolsky@cs.yale.edu voicenet: 203-436-1483 | +----------------+----------------------------------------------------------+ #include <disclaimer.h>
rock@rancho.uucp (Rock Kent) (04/10/89)
In article <56344@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> spolsky-joel@CS.Yale.EDU (Joel Spolsky) writes:
Argh! Version 3.10 of MicroEmacs no longer works in Xenix.
[followed by some specifics followed by]
I'll bet there are other things that are now broken, that didn't used
to be.
If anybody has any solutions yet I'd love to hear them...
Switch to GNU emacs.
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***************************************************************************jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer) (04/10/89)
In article <56344@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> spolsky-joel@CS.Yale.EDU (Joel Spolsky) writes: > >Argh! Version 3.10 of MicroEmacs no longer works in Xenix. > >I spent several hours just getting the blasted thing to compile at >all, but now various things don't work > >--- function and cursor keys >--- filename completion >--- the mode line isn't reverse video I have had the same experience. I think that some of the above mentioned problems may be due to an incorrect .emacsrc file. I haven't had a chance to do anything more than get it to compile and execute. If Daniel Lawrence is on the net please respond. In the meantime, I will be working on it during the week and may figure out what is wrong before I start doing my local modifications. As of now the only files I had to modify were: unix.c etype.h bind.c estruct.h Makefile, which was copied from makefile.unx I also had to create a proto.h file, which contains prototypes of all the functions. The etype.h file now included the proto.h file, and all the simple function definitions in etype.h are commented out. JB -- Jonathan Bayer Beware: The light at the end of the Intelligent Software Products, Inc. tunnel may be an oncoming dragon 19 Virginia Ave. ...uunet!ispi!jbayer Rockville Centre, NY 11570 (516) 766-2867 jbayer@ispi.UUCP
nwd@j.cc.purdue.edu (Daniel Lawrence) (04/11/89)
In article <56344@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> spolsky-joel@CS.Yale.EDU (Joel Spolsky) writes: > >Argh! Version 3.10 of MicroEmacs no longer works in Xenix. > >I spent several hours just getting the blasted thing to compile at >all, but now various things don't work > >--- function and cursor keys >--- filename completion >--- the mode line isn't reverse video > >SCO Xenix 2.3.2 on a compaq 386. > >I'll bet there are other things that are now broken, that didn't used >to be. > >If anybody has any solutions yet I'd love to hear them... > >+----------------+----------------------------------------------------------+ >| Joel Spolsky | bitnet: spolsky@yalecs.bitnet uucp: ...!yale!spolsky | >| | internet: spolsky@cs.yale.edu voicenet: 203-436-1483 | >+----------------+----------------------------------------------------------+ > #include <disclaimer.h> Hello, Getting one stable version on many different platforms is not always the easiest, especially in ones spare time. I am ready and willing to take any donations of hardware and software which will allow me to run XENIX. At the moment, I have to arrange, by apointment, to use equipment at a nearby company, taking vacation days from my job to be able to do it in the buisness day. That is not to say I am not preparing XENIX, it just might take a little while. Also VMS users out there should hold on, a good set of fixes with both a SMG and a VT220 style driver are being folded in now. And a little other good news... FINALLY... our computer center here has gotten the internet connection up to my workstation. Details on anonymous FTP connections to it will be posted soon. Daniel Lawrence (317) 742-5153 nwd@j.cc.purdue.edu The Programmer's Room Fido 1:201/10 (317) 742-5533 PS: If you must get 3.10 running on XENIX immediatly... go into unix.c and add a "& 0" the the line #if COMPLET and go into tcap.c in the tcapgetc() function and add &0 to the: #if XENIX | SUN line. This will get it running, without file name completion and function key recognition.
usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner) (04/11/89)
in article <199@rancho.uucp>, rock@rancho.uucp (Rock Kent) says: $ Xref: cps3xx comp.emacs:5843 comp.unix.xenix:5901 $ In-reply-to: spolsky-joel@CS.Yale.EDU's message of 9 Apr 89 18:41:24 GMT $ $ In article <56344@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> spolsky-joel@CS.Yale.EDU (Joel Spolsky) writes: $ $ Argh! Version 3.10 of MicroEmacs no longer works in Xenix. $ [followed by some specifics followed by] $ I'll bet there are other things that are now broken, that didn't used $ to be. $ $ If anybody has any solutions yet I'd love to hear them... $ $ Switch to GNU emacs. $ I'd love to run GNU Emacs on my Xenix system. But with only 4MB of memory, a 42MB SCSI disk, and a 12.5MHz 286 that's not enough resources to run GNU in a nice manner. (read: not enough resources for a resource hog) Don't get me wrong, I love GNU Emacs and would love to run nothing else, but not a machine this small. MicroEmacs is my only other feasible choice. Ver 3.9e is only a 120K image on the disk and won't consume a quarter of my free disk space with runtime files. John H. Lawitzke UUCP: Work: ...rutgers!mailrus!frith!jhl Dale Computer Corp., R&D ...decvax!purdue!mailrus!frith!jhl 2367 Science Parkway ...uunet!frith!jhl Okemos, MI, 48864 Home: ...uunet!frith!ipecac!jhl
daveh@marob.MASA.COM (Dave Hammond) (04/11/89)
In article <56344@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> spolsky-joel@CS.Yale.EDU writes: > > Argh! Version 3.10 of MicroEmacs no longer works in Xenix. > [followed by some specifics followed by] > I'll bet there are other things that are now broken, that didn't used > to be. > > If anybody has any solutions yet I'd love to hear them... If this concerns recompilation with the 2.3 dev sys, I've found a few things which broke (especially curses-based programs) because code which formerly declared vars as "char" needed to be "unsigned char". Mush is one program which comes to mind. I'm not sure if the specs of the C library functions originally called for unsigned chars, and the programmers in question assumed char == unsigned char, or the specs changed with the 2.3 release. -- Dave Hammond daveh@marob.masa.com
wrp@biochsn.acc.Virginia.EDU (William R. Pearson) (04/12/89)
]$ Argh! Version 3.10 of MicroEmacs no longer works in Xenix. ]$ ]$ Switch to GNU emacs. ]$ ]I'd love to run GNU Emacs on my Xenix system. But with only 4MB of ]memory, a 42MB SCSI disk, and a 12.5MHz 286 that's not enough resources ]to run GNU in a nice manner. (read: not enough resources for a resource ]hog) Switching to GNUemacs is impossible for many of us, but I have been extremely happy with the Lugaru Epsilon product for Xenix (and DOS). It costs about $195, and is worth every penny. I just wish I could use it on larger machines. Bill Pearson