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From: mschulter AT mach1 DOT mpu DOT com ()
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Subject: Re: Emacs for DOS
Date: 23 Aug 1996 23:01:14 GMT
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Lievre Ludovic (lievre AT racine DOT insa-tlse DOT fr) wrote:
: Hi

: Where Emacs for DOS (or something like that) can be found?

: Thanks

Please let me suggest a source for the complete GNU Emacs version, which
(as advertised) "compiles out of the box" with djgpp 2.0; the only reply
I've seen so far appears to list binary versions.

The version of GNU Emacs which I compiled is 19.31, available at the
anonymous ftp site prep.ai.mit.edu, I believe in the /pub/gnu directory.
The filename is emacs-19.31.tar.gz, I recall -- which very nicely 
uncompresses with the djtar utility included in djgpp.

Please note, however, that the current version is 19.33.

The main caution is that you'll need about 70M for the build process; with
the sources (not needed to run the program once it's compiled), Emacs
takes about 52M on the system I use.

As the docs emphasize, this is much more than an editor; and as a
beginner in C and djgpp, I can tell you that the compilation is just
as easy as the documentation says. (You will also need to have the GNU
File Utilities package, FUT312BX.ZIP, installed in order to compile
Emacs; I have these files installed in the /djgpp/bin directory.)

Also, as documented in the new version 19.33, there's a bug in the djgpp
C library that needs fixing to make the shell command option work in
Emacs; but that fix is available, and makes everything work as expected.

Being able to build GNU Emacs is a wonderful benefit of djgpp.

Most respectfully,
Margo Schulter

P.S. I welcome any corrections from more experienced users.