Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 08:41:29 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: j DOT aldrich6 AT genie DOT com
Cc: 940142 AT balut DOT admu DOT edu DOT ph, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: GRX20 and Xlibemu
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On Wed, 7 Aug 1996 j DOT aldrich6 AT genie DOT com wrote:

> Emacs 19.31 compiles straight out of the box with DJGPP v2, and is
> much cooler.

But it doesn't build by default as a multi-frame, windowed Emacs that you
will see on any Unix box which runs X-Windows.  Emacs can be configured
and built with X-Windows under MSDOS (see CONFIG.BAT in the Emacs
distribution), but you need a library that emulates X on MSDOS.  Xlib is
such an emulation, and was verified to allow Emacs to be built that way,
but only with DJGPP v1.x.  I think making Xlib available on v2 could be 
of great value, in Emacs and elsewhere.

> You can get it from the main GNU site at:
> ftp://ftp.gnu.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/emacs-19.31.tar.gz.
                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^ 
19.32 is out as of this week.  But I suggest waiting a few days for 19.33
(yes, a few days, that's no typo), it will have at least one DOS-related 
bugfix and will probably support clipboard under MS-Windows (unless the 
powers that be decide to postpone the clipboard support until 19.34).