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- From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
- Subject: Re: Emacs for DOS
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.161426.29880@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 16:14:26 GMT
- Article-I.D.: njitgw.1992Aug12.161426.29880
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- In article <SIMPSON.92Aug4163224@altair.math.uiuc.edu> simpson@altair.math.uiuc.edu (Stephen Simpson) writes:
- >Contrary to what has been posted in this newsgroup, there is a DOS
- >port of GNU Emacs. It runs on 386 machines or better. It is called
- >DEMACS. It is based on DJGPP, the D J Delorie port of GNU C to DOS,
- >using Delorie's 32-bit DOS extender. It is available for anonymous
- >ftp at wuarchive.wustl.edu:mirrors/msdos/demacs. It requires either
- >XMS or VCPI memory management. I am using it with DOS 5.0 and my
- >CONFIG.SYS file is as follows:
-
- No. It requires VCPI. As soon as you install EMM386.EXE for UMB
- access (placing the 386 into v86 mode), the GO32 DOS extender stops
- working. If you want to use UMB's (one of the only reasons for
- getting DOS 5.0, in my opinin), you can't use any of D J Delorie's
- ports.
-
- He claims that he could make the DOS extender compatible with DPMI
- 1.0, but so far, all DPMI servers (like Windows and OS/2) are 0.9
- compliant and not 1.0, and 0.9 is missing the critical features needed
- for the DOS extender.
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