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- From: pap@tempel.az05.bull.com (Pierre Perret)
- Newsgroups: comp.emacs
- Subject: Re: Emacs under MS-Windows (was: MicroEMACS under GUI - what&where?)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.013644.17041@catfish.az05.bull.com>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 01:36:44 GMT
- References: <1992Aug14.085917.4248@OSGO.KS.HE.Schule.DE> <EBROWN.92Sep5000446@bud_light.kodak.com>
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- In article <EBROWN.92Sep5000446@bud_light.kodak.com>, ebrown@bud_light.kodak.com (Eric Brown) writes:
- |> Why not use Win32s when it becomes available. Win32s is 32-bit windows 3.1
- |> dlls which should be available at the end of the month I think.
- |>
- |> Also available at the end of the month is POSIX for NT. This should really
- |> make live easy if you can port GNU emacs to a single process/thread using
- |> the win32s api. (Assuming you can program for POSIX and then run in 3.1
- |> using the 32-bit 3.1 dlls.)
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- Unfortunately, that won't work: POSIX under NT is a totaly separate
- subsystem from the Win32 subsystem. Win32s will only support NT
- applications coded for the Win32 subsystem. I see no POSIX support
- forthcoming under Windows 3.x.
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