chris@ASYLUM.GSFC.NASA.GOV (Chris Shenton) (08/10/89)
I'm running GNU Emacs 18.54 on Apollo/Unix and a MicroVAX/VMS. The Apollo version is quite happy. I can't tell if the VMS version is supposed to be able to do all the UNIX stuff [yet?], especially subprocesses. The file emacs/VMSNOTES indicates that features which depend on subprocesses do not work (dired, time/load, spell-correction, et al). The file emacs/lisp/vmsproc.el by Mukesh Prasad ((C) 1986) will run asynchronous a VMS DCL subprocesses under Emacs via the `subprocess-command'; this is nice but has an odd behaviour if you're used to the Unix-Emacs facilities. Am I correct in thinking that this is the only VMS subproccessing facility available at the moment? Does anyone have a VMS Dired? Is there a mailing list somewhere for VMS (l)users? Thanks for your support. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ``We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us'' -- Marshall McLuhan ===============================================================================