frankhua@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca (Frank X.J HUANG) (10/09/90)
I am trying to ftp the Freeemacs from simtel20.army.mil, but have some problems. Seems there are bunch of files in the directory and I don't know whether I need to ftp all of them or not, since I have limited disk space on UNIX machine. Also, is there any specific ftp commands while doing this? Anyone did that before? Could you tell me what's the proper procedure to do that and get the Freemacs running on my PC (a 386 with 4M memory & 340 HD running MS Win 3.0)? Can Freemacs run as a non-window application within a window? Any comments on freemacs, compared with 'jove'? Thanks a lot.
nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) (10/09/90)
In article <5191@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca> frankhua@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca (Frank X.J HUANG) writes:
I am trying to ftp the Freeemacs from simtel20.army.mil, but have some
problems.
Seems there are bunch of files in the directory and I don't know whether I
need to ftp all of them or not, since I have limited disk space on UNIX
machine. Also, is there any specific ftp commands while doing this?
You only need emacs16a. Everything else is optional.
Anyone did that before? Could you tell me what's the proper procedure to
do that and get the Freemacs running on my PC (a 386 with 4M memory & 340
HD running MS Win 3.0)?
Read the README.DOC file.
Can Freemacs run as a non-window application within a window?
Yes, as far as I can tell. Windows insists that it can't, but when I turn
off full-screen and turn on window, it works just fine.
Any comments on freemacs, compared with 'jove'?
The biggest flaw in freemacs is that its max file size is limited to 64K.
Also, there's its lack of undo. Other than that, it's in the same class
as Brief and Epsilon.
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