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- From: David.Fox@Saigon.COM
- Newsgroups: comp.emacs
- Subject: converting from Demacs (DOS Emacs) to Emreal emacs
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.004354.12261@Saigon.COM>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 00:43:54 GMT
- Distribution: usa
- Organization: Station Zebra Corp, Sunnyvale CA Ph:408-739-1520
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- I am a user of Demacs, the DOS version of Emacs. Recently I installed
- 386bsd unix, and got the binary for emacs. I tried bringing over the
- documentation files from Demacs onto the Unix partition, but I was only
- partly successful, and I'm having trouble setting all the files up in
- the right places.
-
- In Demacs, there were about 13 files Emacs.1 through Emacs.13 for info
- browser and for the documentation (describe-key-briefly, apropos, etc.)
-
- I've gotten the files - at least for info-browser, in /usr/local/emacs/info
- and that seems all right so far. Yet emacs wants something called doc-18.58.4
- in the /usr/local/emacs/etc, and somehow I don't seem to have that file.
-
- However, it seems to me I think that these files are used for two things, and
- then I can link (via ln) the two sets of files, so that emacs.1 becomes
- doc-18.58.1, emacs.2 becomes doc-18.58.2, and so forth. But when I do this,
- the descriptions with describe-key-briefly are all screwed up. I think
- partly the reason is that the cr/lf at the end of each line in a DOS texgt
- file got stripped to just an LF, and because of that, all the file offsets
- are wrong.
-
- Am I just better off getting the whole thing (sans the binary) from somewhere
- as a tar, and then installing it? Also, Demacs doesn't seem to have a lot
- of macros compared to the ones in the GNU Emacs manual - stuff like rectangles
- sort, hanoi, dissociate are simply not there. Would the full thing have it?
-
- I also need some help in setting up emacs to recognize the PC arrow keys
- under unix.
-