MCGUIRE@GRIN1.BITNET ("The Sysco Kid ", McGuire,Ed) (04/19/88)
--------------------------- Begin Forwarded Message -------------------------- Date: Wed, 23 Mar 88 11:19:59 cst From: "The Sysco Kid (McGuire,Ed)" <MCGUIRE@GRIN1.Bitnet> To: info-vax@kl.sri.com cc: "McGuire,Ed" <MCGUIRE@GRIN1.Bitnet> > Date: Sat, 19 Mar 88 13:12:00 EST > From: David Bogartz <DSBOGARTZ%AMHERST.BITNET@MITVMA.MIT.EDU> > Subject: New version of APE (A Program Editor) > > As many folks know, the EDT emulator is being discontinued in "the next > release of VMS", according to the VMS V4.7 Release Notes. I have made a > decision as to what to do about the problem of APE being incrementally > compiled on top of something that is going away soon. For the benefit of people who are unfamiliar with the situation: The VMS V4.7 Release Notes don't say that VAXTPU's EDT emulator will go away. Don't panic! What is actually happening is that the VAXTPU program EDTSECINI will go away. Code will be added to EVESECINI (=TPUSECINI) to provide the same user environment. This is exactly what David means when he says that the EDT emulator is being `discontinued.' His APE program is a customized enhanced version of EDTSECINI, and it would probably require a complete rewrite to customize EVESECINI to provide the same environment. So he's going to include the source code of the obsolete EDTSECINI with future releases of APE. Ed ---------------------------- End Forwarded Message --------------------------- Sorry if you saw this already! I didn't, and I should have. Ed -------