freedman@calgary.UUCP (Dan Freedman) (07/20/87)
If I want to buy GNU Emacs for our DN3000's, should I try to obtain it from The Free Software Foundation or from ADUS? The FSF route should get me the latest *official* distribution, but the ADUS route should get me the best version for the Apollos. In particular, I would like to have fast startup time and integration to the Display Manager, which were reported to have been included in some 18.?? version. Replies would be greatly appreciated. Dan Freedman. University of Calgary Computer Science Department.
srt@CS.UCLA.EDU (Scott Turner) (07/21/87)
------- The package that integrates GNU Emacs into the Apollo environment was written by Leonard Zubkoff of LUCID, Inc. It was written for version 18.41, but I applied it without problem to 18.44. If you have FTP access from your machine (or can wrangle such), then the easiest was to get GNU Emacs is to grab the tar file from MIT. The changes are a little more difficult to get. I had them publically available, but the machine they were on has since gone away, and I haven't yet found a new home. At the time he announced the changes, Leonard put a copy on his machine for FTP. At this late date I don't recall what machine that is, or whether the tar file is still there. -- Scott