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- From: steibel@venus.cs.umbc.edu (David M. Steibel)
- Newsgroups: comp.emacs
- Subject: Re: Emacs under MS-Windows (was: MicroEMACS under GUI - what&where?)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.162345.16787@umbc3.umbc.edu>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 16:23:45 GMT
- References: <PLYON.92Sep4193943@emx.cc.utexas.edu> <1992Sep9.225620.26471@sj.ate.slb.com>
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- offen@rushmore (Russ Poffenberger) writes:
- > plyon@emx.cc.utexas.edu (Paul Lyon) writes:
- >> weisman@osf.org (Dave Weisman) writes:
-
- >> Has anyone researched what's necessary to either port GO32 to
- >> DPMI, or, take a deep breath, do a real emacs port to Windows?
- [much other stuff deleted]
-
- > Interestingly, I have, in my hands, a supposed FULL port of GNU emacs to
- > DOS. SOmebody gave it to me (on 2 hi-density 3.5" floppies), saying it
- > is just like the GNU emacs under UNIX. The only thing missing are most of the
- > lisp files, but that is OK, because it is supposed to be able to use the
- > lisp files from the GNU distribution.
-
- I think you misread the question. They are already talking about Demacs
- (which I assume is the editor you're also talking about). Demacs will
- not function correctly under Windows, and they are discussing that
- fact.
- --
- David M. Steibel; Author of the Demacs FAQ; Internet: steibel@cs.umbc.edu
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