seth@miro.Berkeley.EDU (Seth Teller) (09/27/90)
i installed emacs on our new PI today-- this was the version i used:
Reading product descriptors from ...
emacs 643922662 Emacs Option
i selected everything, installed everything, and checked that
everything had new dates.
but... invoking /usr/bin/emacs gives
Illegal instruction (core dumped)
i think my environment, etc., is correct:
ELIBDIR=/usr/lib/emacs
EPATH=/usr/lib/emacs/maclib
TERM=iris-ansi
etc.
what the @!#$%^& is going on? can anybody shed some light?
sethkarron@MCIRPS2.MED.NYU.EDU (09/28/90)
Unipress Emacs strikes again. I am surprised that it works for anyone these days. Sounds like you have an ancient version. Illegal instructions sound like the wrong processor. Send it back and write emacs@unipress.com and let them know that their product is no good. They probably already know it, but just wont admit it. They are too busy porting it to suns to pay attention to sgi machines. dan. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | karron@nyu.edu Dan Karron | | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . New York University Medical Center | | 560 First Avenue \ \ Pager <1> (212) 397 9330 | | New York, New York 10016 \**\ <2> 10896 <3> <your-number-here> | | (212) 340 5210 \**\__________________________________________ | | Please Note :Soon to move to dan@karron.med.nyu.edu 128.122.135.3 (Mid Oct)| +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
schuette@acoustics.nrl.navy.mil (Larry Schuette) (09/28/90)
Your problem with Unipress Emacs is obvious: Unipress Emacs --> yech Seriously, I'd recommend getting the Gnu version. Its better 'cause a. it's free. b. it works better c. everybody else uses it and, d. it's free. We use it on our SGI machines, our Vaxen and a slew of other Unix machines. It's available via anonymous ftp in compressed tar format from prep.ai.mit.edu. Check out all the great Gnu software in the pub/gnu directory. Of course I'm not associated with the Free Software Foundation, but I'm really glad that there are brilliant people out there who give good software away...
vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver) (09/29/90)
In article <9009272021.AA29850@mcirps2.med.nyu.edu>, karron@MCIRPS2.MED.NYU.EDU writes: > Unipress Emacs strikes again. I am surprised that it works for > anyone these days. > > Sounds like you have an ancient version. Illegal instructions sound > like the wrong processor. > > Send it back and write emacs@unipress.com and let them know that their > product is no good. They probably already know it, but just wont admit > it. They are too busy porting it to suns to pay attention to sgi machines. I currently use Unipress EMACS on a 4D/25 and have previously used it on 4D/70s, 4D/60s, and IRIS-3030s. Like anything, it is far from perfect. However, Unipress EMACS is farther from "no good" than other third-party editors that I have used. The pile of mock-lisp that does C parsing and other things that I've been carrying from employer to employer for many years has worked without major change on several versions of Unipress EMACS. Unipress EMACS is quite compatible with Gosling EMACS, but has far fewer bugs. The major defect of Unipress EMACS is that its price in dollars is higher than GNU EMACS, provided someone with the time and expertise is available to do the GNU port or poke around on the net for a binary. It's hard for me to imagine how Unipress EMACS will survive in the face of GNU EMACS, but it does not deserve to be castigated. It was an excellent and reasonably priced product until the advent of GNU. Vernon Schryver, vjs@sgi.com