exl@mace.cc.purdue.edu (The Junkyard DAWG) (07/10/90)
Hi,
I Have A Few Questions Regarding Emacs For The IBM PC.
1) First Of All Is It Legal To Download Emacs Source Code To My PC ?
If The Answer To 1) Is Yes, Then
2) How Do I Compile It ? The Source Code I Have Is For UNIX(tm) Machines.
Is There Any ftp Site Which Has Source Code For Emacs On The IBM PC ? Or
Is There Any Other Kind Of ASCII Editor Available For A PC From A ftp
Site ?
3) How Would I Compile The Source Code ? (I Have Turbo C V1.5)
Any Help Would Be Greatly Appreciated.
-- Deepak Mulchandani
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===============================================================================nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) (07/10/90)
In article <5076@mace.cc.purdue.edu> exl@mace.cc.purdue.edu (The Junkyard DAWG) writes:
I Have A Few Questions Regarding Emacs For The IBM PC.
1) First Of All Is It Legal To Download Emacs Source Code To My PC ?
Yes, but...
If The Answer To 1) Is Yes, Then
2) How Do I Compile It ? The Source Code I Have Is For UNIX(tm) Machines.
Is There Any ftp Site Which Has Source Code For Emacs On The IBM PC ? Or
You probably can't compile it, as the executable alone is close to two
megabytes. However, you may be interested in Freemacs:
Freemacs is a programmable editor. The .EXE file is only 21K because
it only contains a language interpreter and text editor primitives. The
bulk of the programming is done in MINT, which is a string-oriented
language. Freemacs is yet another Emacs clone. Emacs was first written
at MIT by Richard M. Stallman.
There are a number of Emacs clones for the PC available. Freemacs
has three distinguishing characteristics:
o Freemacs is free, and it was designed from the start to be programmable.
o Freemacs is the only IBM-PC editor that tries to be like GNU Emacs.
o Freemacs can only edit files less than 64K in length.
You may freely copy this software. I only ask that you send improvements
back to me for incorporation into the package for the rest of us. The
distribution is available from one or more of the following sources:
EMACS16A ARC The executables and MINT code.
EMACS100 ARC Zenith Z-100 version. Requires EMACS16.
EMACSPEL ARC Spelling checker.
EMACSEGA ARC A collection of EGA utilities
EMAC16AS ARC The .ASM source.
CUHUG BBS:
(315)268-6667 - 1200/2400 8N1, 24 hrs. File area 25. No registration
required to download Freemacs.
Internet:
Anonymous FTP to simtel20.army.mil from PD:<MSDOS.FREEMACS>
Internet:
Anonymous FTP to grape.ecs.clarkson.edu [128.153.13.196] from
/e/freemacs
Bitnet && UUCP:
Send mail to archive-server@sun.soe.clarkson.edu. You may use
archive-server%sun.soe@omnigate if you are on Bitnet, or
{smart-host}!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!archive-server if you are using
UUCP. The mail message should consist of 'help'. If you do not
get a reply within a day, then your return path is broken. You'll
need to use the path command to give a mail address that our mailer
can grok. Our mailer can send mail to any address with an '@' in it,
with the exception of ".UUCP" pseudo-addresses.
Or else send $15 (copying fee) to the author. This will assure you of the
latest version. Please specify floppy format:
5.25", 1.2 Meg
5.25", 360K
3.50", 720K
Russell Nelson
11 Grant St.
Potsdam, NY 13676
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--russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) Russ.Nelson@$315.268.6667
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In Capitalism's advertising, citizens are told "you will buy widgets".880716a@aucs.uucp (Dave Astels) (07/10/90)
In article <5076@mace.cc.purdue.edu> exl@mace.cc.purdue.edu (The Junkyard DAWG) writes: >Hi, > > I Have A Few Questions Regarding Emacs For The IBM PC. > > 1) First Of All Is It Legal To Download Emacs Source Code To My PC ? If it doesn't fall under a braindead license. There are several PC Emacs implementations ... for the PC! > 2) How Do I Compile It ? The Source Code I Have Is For UNIX(tm) Machines. > Is There Any ftp Site Which Has Source Code For Emacs On The IBM PC ? Or > Is There Any Other Kind Of ASCII Editor Available For A PC From A ftp > Site ? I believe I got uEmacs 3.10 from durer.cme.nist.gov file: uEmacs.tar.Z It comes with headers, etc for a variety of operating systems. > 3) How Would I Compile The Source Code ? (I Have Turbo C V1.5) It comes with a Makefile. -- "I liked him better before he died" - McCoy, ST V =============================================================================== Dave Astels | Internet: 880716a@AcadiaU.CA PO Box 835, Wolfville, | Bitnet: 880716a@Acadia
streeter@theory.lcs.mit.edu (Kenneth B. Streeter) (07/11/90)
In article <1990Jul10.130318.18671@aucs.uucp> 880716a@aucs.UUCP (Dave Astels) writes: >In article <5076@mace.cc.purdue.edu> exl@mace.cc.purdue.edu (The Junkyard DAWG) writes: >>Hi, >> >> I Have A Few Questions Regarding Emacs For The IBM PC. >> >> 1) First Of All Is It Legal To Download Emacs Source Code To My PC ? Do you need the emacs sources? There is a version of emacs, microemacs (usually written uemacs) for the IBM PC. The most recent version I have seen is uemacs 3.10. It was posted in comp.binaries.ibm.pc, and is available at any comp.binaries.ibm.pc archive. (Volume 2, articles 73-83.) Typically, you will just find a binary, but I have seen sources at some locations. Comp.binaries.ibm.pc archives that I know of include: wuarchive.wustl.edu [128.252.135.4] (These have it -- an excellent archive) They will be in the subdirectory usenet/comp.binaries.ibm.pc/volume2/uemacs. trwind.trw.com [129.4.16.70] (These may be gone?) For those in Europe, try: (Do not access these from states -- it is an expensive connection.) hydra.helsinki.fi [128.214.4.29] tau.sm.luth.se [130.240.0.3] -- Kenneth B. Streeter | ARPA: streeter@im.lcs.mit.edu MIT LCS, Room NE43-350 | UUCP: ...!uunet!im.lcs.mit.edu!streeter 545 Technology Square | (617) 253-2614 (work) Cambridge, MA 02139 | (617) 225-2249 (home)