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- From: weisen@daedalus.dcrt.nih.gov (Neil Weisenfeld)
- Subject: Re: Running shell from inside EMACS
- Message-ID: <1992Sep6.223222.5801@alw.nih.gov>
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- Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 22:32:22 GMT
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- S947460@UMSLVMA.UMSL.EDU (Andrew Zaitsev) writes:
- : I remember that when I used EMACS for Unix, I was able to spawn
- : a shell from inside EMACS and do whatever I wanted with screen output:
- : scroll,page,cut/paste, etc.
- : Can I do the same thing with DOS version of EMACS ?
- :
-
- From what I've been told, this is pretty difficult to do under regular DOS.
- When I was trapped in the land of PC's, I used a commercial emacs
- implementation called Epsilon. It's the only editor I came across that
- could do this, although I would guess that Brief probably could, too. Neither
- MicroEmacs nor freemacs could do it at the time.
-
- --Neil
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