Date: Sat, 17 Dec 1994 14:54:51 +0900
From: Stephen Turnbull <turnbull AT shako DOT sk DOT tsukuba DOT ac DOT jp>
To: UCKO AT VAX1 DOT ROCKHURST DOT EDU
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: emacs

   >> I got OEmacs 4.1 from oak.oakland.edu, but it dies with "Unsupported DOS
   >
   >Oemacs must use the version of go32 which came in the package.

   Then why didn't they just bind their funky version in?  There are only
   about 2 executables, and having an odd version of GO32 is merely going
   to increase confusion all around.

Well, the main reason for a funky version is that stock GO32s never
learned to handle control-break to Darryl Okahata's satisfaction.  He
kept sending patches, DJ kept putting them in (according to list
traffic, anyway, I didn't check the source), and they still didn't
come up to snuff.
    Darryl didn't want to bind in an old hacked version of GO32 for
all the usual reasons you shouldn't bind in the GO32.  Not when a
correctly functioning (by Darryl's standards) GO32 was supposed to
show up any minute now....

   --- Aaron Ucko (ucko AT vax1 DOT rockhurst DOT edu; finger for PGP public key) -=- httyp!