[net.unix-wizards] Gosling Emacs on 4.1c

phil@sequel.UUCP (06/23/83)

I seem to recall someone claiming to have ported Gosling EMACS mpx code to
4.1c.  Am I smoking rope or what?  If it has been done already would anyone
be willing to part with it?  Tnx.

	Phil Hochstetler 			(503) 626-5700
	Sequel Computer Systems, Inc.
	Portland, Oregon
	
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ellis@flairvax.UUCP (06/27/83)

    A few weeks ago, somebody claimed to have a version of mchan.c that
    was required to run Gosling's Emacs on 4.1c. I was unable to reach
    this person by mail - perhaps others had difficulty, too.

    A fix this important is surely worth distributing via net.sources, yes ?
    It'd be much appreciated around here...

    Michael Ellis - Fairchild AI Lab - Palo Alto CA - (415) 858-4270

guido@mcvax.UUCP (Guido van Rossum) (07/21/83)

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    A few weeks ago, somebody claimed to have a version of mchan.c that
    was required to run Gosling's Emacs on 4.1c. I was unable to reach
    this person by mail - perhaps others had difficulty, too.

    A fix this important is surely worth distributing via net.sources, yes ?
    It'd be much appreciated around here...

    Michael Ellis - Fairchild AI Lab - Palo Alto CA - (415) 858-4270
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Here's good news for you.  At the Math. Centre, Amsterdam, we did it
ourselves, tired of waiting.
It took me about one day of digging in the Emacs sources -- after
an unspecified time needed to find out about pseudo terminals and
other tricks.
I won't post to net.sources, because I'm not sure whether this reaches
you (we don't receive it in Europe).  But maybe teus@mcvax.uucp knows a
way to distribute it to interested (and licenced!) parties out there.

	Guido ('not afraid to do it myself') van Rossum
	Mathematical Centre, Amsterdam
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