dfr@CAD.USNA.MIL ("David F. Rogers") (12/08/87)
G'day, A number of people seem to be trying to load gnuEMACS on an Iris and having difficulty. May I suggest that unless you need the full extensibility of EMACS that you reconsider your use of it. There is an alternate editor available without charge that has nearly all the characteristics of EMACS and uses considerably less system resources. I refer, of course, to JOVE (Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs). I believe that JOVE is available on the Berkeley 4.3 distribution. It is also available from brl. I have been using JOVE on my 2400T for about 3 years with very minor problems. We also use it as our principal editor for students on our VAX 11/780 graphics support machine (under BSD 4.3), on Suns, on a Gould, and on IBM-PC's and compatibles. Makes it nice that the same editor is used across machines. Jove is very fast even on a PC. Professor David F. Rogers U. S. Naval Academy dfr@usna.mil
kermit@BRL.ARPA (Chuck Kennedy) (12/09/87)
JOVE is available via anonymous FTP from brl-vgr.arpa (192.5.23.6). A tar archive of jove is in the directory arch and is called jove.tar. It is 696320 bytes long. Note that the iris archives are in the directory info-iris. -Chuck Kennedy <info-iris-request@brl.arpa>