Date: Tue, 26 May 1992 21:52 CST
From: DARREL HANKERSON <HANK AT DUCVAX DOT AUBURN DOT EDU>
Subject: Re: Trident 8900c
To: MCGRATH AT elec DOT canterbury DOT ac DOT nz
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Status: O

>Could someone tell me an site and _directory_ for
>    dos emacs
>    dos tex/latex
emTeX is at: rusmv1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de in soft/tex/machines/pc/emtex
It's big. There are several subdirectories. A US site is 
msdos.archive.umich.edu in msdos/TeX/emTeX, but you will probably need to
go to stuttgart if you need the latest tex386b8.zip file (in .../betatest).

There are several emacs for DOS. I'm not an emacs expert. You should get
the GNUish doc file from simtel20.army.mil in pd1:<msdos.gnuish> to see
a brief note on two good emacs. There is also MicroEmacs at simtel.

Every DOS user should get the index file simibm.idx and the reader simdir21
from simtel. If you cannot find these, send me email (or read the 
comp.binaries.ibm.pc.archives and look for posts from Keith Peterson and
Timo Salmi.)


>    also, in some of the makefiles, (DJ's I think) there are unixy commands
>    like rm, mv etc. Are these just batch files/aliases or has s.o.
>    written/ported them?

Again, you should get the GNUish info. There are very good DOS/OS2 (bound
programs--runs under both) at hobbes.nmsu.edu in pub/os2/all/gnu, I believe.
The files are gnututil.zoo and gnufu.zoo, I believe. The GNUish ports at simtel
are reported to be good. A recent version of rm appeared on the binaries
group comp.binaries.ibm.pc (or was announced and reviewed in 
comp.binaries.ibm.pc.archives).


>I am using Borland Make 3.5 on the samples and I get 'Redefinition of target'
>or something like that. What to do? If getting another make is the
>solution, where is it?

NDMake is a long-time favorite. It's on simtel. dmake looks like a very good
DOS/OS2 make, and I'm currently testing. I was a registered user of ndmake 
(now the commercial opusmake). GNUish make 358 is at simtel. Kai Uwe Rommel
has an interesting make-like utility recently posted to comp.binaries.os2 
(there is a dos version with it, I believe). Anything from Rommel is good. 
It is advertised as an easier way to "make".

--darrel hankerson hank AT ducvax DOT auburn DOT edu