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- From: GeraldR@sunfish.ratsys.com (Gerald Ruderman)
- Subject: Re: Emacs for DOS
- Message-ID: <GeraldR.27.0@sunfish.ratsys.com>
- Sender: usenet@uunet!rational (Network News Desk)
- Organization: Rational Systems, Inc.
- References: <SIMPSON.92Aug4163224@altair.math.uiuc.edu> <1992Aug12.161426.29880@njitgw.njit.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 20:44:43 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug12.161426.29880@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
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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:
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- >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.
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- EMM386 DOES provide VCPI support. Perhaps the problems comes from using the
- NOEMS parameter which leaves it without memory to manage.
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- Gerald Ruderman geraldr@ratsys.com
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