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- From: thite@micrografx.com
- Subject: Re: Emacs under MS-Windows (was: MicroEMACS under GUI - what&where?)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.190717.450@micrografx.com>
- Organization: Micrografx, Inc.
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- References: <WEISMAN.92Sep1191748@macaroni.osf.org>
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 92 19:07:17 GMT
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- Dave Weisman (weisman@osf.org) wrote:
- :
- : Mirco writes:
- :
- : Now I heard of other versions of MicroEMACS for
- : window-orientated enviroments (MS Windows, XWindows, ...). Up to
- : now I haven't discovered yet which versions do exist or where to
- : get them.
- :
- : I've been a very, very happy demacs user for some time now. Some
- : of my current work is under MS-Windows and unfortunately demacs
- : doesn't work in that model. It's not just that demacs isn't
- : written as a typical Windows program, but it also doesn't run
- : under a Windows/DOS session. (The specific problem is that a
- : Windows/DOS session supports DPMI, but demacs/go32 likes VCPI.)
- :
- : Has anyone researched what's necessary to either port GO32 to
- : DPMI, or, take a deep breath, do a real emacs port to Windows?
-
- GO32 can't run until DPMI 1.0 is supported by Windows. No DPMI 1.0
- server is available. Windows supports/presents DPMI 0.9xxx
-
- The only option I see to get what you want is to DJGPP to compile
- to the a.out file and load that a.out file yourself via some tricks
- and techniques with the WINMEM32.DLL provided with the SDK. Others
- (including myself) have done this. If I had permission, I'd post
- the way I do this, but Micrografx currently owns what I do.
-
- I do understand there is a MEM32 lib someone else did is available
- on the net.
-
- Tom Hite
- thite@micrografx.com
-
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